Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The motivation of this patch is to get closer to a goal of being
>> able to have a core subset of git functionality built in to git.
>> That would mean
>>
>> * people on Windows could get a copy of at least the core parts
>> of Git without having to install a Unix-style shell
>>
>> * people deploying to servers don't have to rewrite the #! line
>> or worry about the PATH and quality of installed POSIX
>> utilities, if they are only using the built-in part written
>> in C
>
> I am not sure what is meant by the latter. Rewriting #! is part of
> any scripted Porcelain done by the top-level Makefile, and I do not
> think we have seen any problem reports on it.
I think the case of a server with exotic OS and totally broken /bin/sh
would also benefit from this (the user won't have to find a non-broken
sh and point SHELL_PATH to it). I have no concrete example though.
>> + size_t len = strlen(e->d_name) - strlen(".pack");
>
> decl-after-stmt.
Stefan: you can make sure this does not happen again by adding
CFLAGS += -Wdeclaration-after-statement
in config.mak.
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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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