Hi, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM brian m. carlson wrote: >> If you really need Git functionality that doesn't rely on sh, you can >> look into libgit2 and its assorted language wrappers. > > Uh yeah, no. Im not reimplementing the entire Git program, when the fix is 7 > lines. Here it is, if anyone is interested: Understood: that's perfectly reasonable for your own use, and I can hope that this is the first step toward becoming an active Git contributor in the future. :) However, for the reasons Brian said, it's not going into Git upstream. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan