Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Jonathan Nieder's message of Sun Mar 25 21:11:48 -0400 2012: [...] >> at least in the short term >> while we require a POSIX-style shell elsewhere in git. > > I'm unclear what you're meaning by this. Are you implying that the > requirement for a POSIX-style shell should be relaxes to the point > where things don't rely on that base set of functionality? Currently git uses bash on Windows by necessity. I suspect we could make a lot of people happy by dropping that dependency some day and using cmd.exe or something like powershell in places the user provides a script. Context: [1] Of course that's far in the future and not certain at all. ;-) Ciao, Jonathan [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164656/focus=164716 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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