On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:11 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote: > GIT today requires not only a decent UNIX shell but also, GNU tools, > Perl and Python. Porting to Solaris has recently had some more > effort put into it to remove some of the GNU tool dependencies but > perhaps one of the most important features (git-merge-recursive) > is a Python script. The great thing about git is that it's modular. A single utility can be replaced and retested in the same environment, without having to rewrite the rest of the scripts. A dedicated programmer with good C and Python skills could rewrite git-merge-recursive.py in C in 2 days, I believe. Add a few days of bug fixing, of course. Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much. Windows is becoming a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware. Yet it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects. I really need to rewrite git-clean in C, since it doesn't handle embedded newlines properly. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html