On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:11:38PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Teach Git how to prompt the user for a good bug report: reproduction > > steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior. Later, Git can learn how > > to collect some diagnostic information from the repository. > > It makes sense, but I do not think of any good reason why this > should be implemented as a builtin. I'd expect it would probably > need to collect more info on the running environment than otherwise > necessary for the regular Git operation, and perhaps you'd want to > even link with libraries that are not needed for the regular Git > operation to achieve that. > > Can you make it a standalone binary instead to avoid bloat of the > main "git" binary? Sure. This would fix some other issues (needing to link against curl to get the curl version, which is exactly what you implied). I wasn't certain which circumstances a standalone binary was preferred, but I agree with your reasoning here for sure. - Emily
