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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] custom strategies in builtin-merge
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:37:02 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > ... especially since I hope that we have them builtin soon, and not 
> > only that, but have builtin-merge call them as C functions, not with 
> > fork() and exec().
> 
> Because builtin-merge.c does not directly use fork/exec but uses 
> run_command() interface, non POSIX platforms can spawn subprocesses just 
> fine, can't they?

Yes, they can.  Slowly, but they do.

But why should they?  Efficient merging is such a prominent feature of 
Git; I do not agree to let it remain a second-class feature.

Ciao,
Dscho