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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 17:47:36 -0700 (PDT)
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Do folks have feelings about surfacing this information, and where such
> > logic should live?
> 
> Probably one of the t/helper/test-dump-*.c programs, if we already
> do not have one.

The goal would be to be able to extract this information from
repositories, with a standard git install.  That directory only
contains developer tools, which aren't part of the install, no?

 - Alex