On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:06:56PM -0400, James Bowes wrote: > > > The following two patches make git-gc a builtin command. > > > > What's the advantage in making git-gc a builtin command? > > Portability. Plus, James wanted to get involved in Git development, and > building in gc really was the shortest path into that. > I'm not sure I understand the portability argument? All of the platforms that git currently supports will handle shell scripts, right? Heck, git-commit is still a shell script, and that's a rather, ah, fundamental command, isn't it? - Ted - 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