"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> It is really annoying when the essentials do not work.
> I think we could improve at least them, by minimizing
> their dependencies to external tools.
>
> ---
>
> git-commit.sh has only ohne place where perl is used
> and it can actually quite trivially be done in sh.
> git-ls-files without "-z" produces quoted output, even if
> is different from that produced by perl code it could be
> enough. Otherwise I'd better suggest to add another
> quoting style (replacing only \t, \n and backslash) than
> having to constantly patch git-commit.sh for binmode
> or perl path (Windows has no stable tool set, and perl
> for instance often resides "somewhere").
(1) Sign-off?
(2) I think the cover letter comment talks more apporpirate
things than your proposed commit message. The commit log is
not a place to vent your frustration. It's where you
justify why that change was needed for people who will want
to figure out why your patch broke their workflow later.
I do not think anybody parses git-status output to figure out
the list of paths that are touched/untracked/etc., so I am not
opposed to this change itself.
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