On Wednesday 2007 August 22, David Kastrup wrote: > Could you be so kind as to give a one-sentence summary what the > benefits over using a shell script would be? I think this work has > started before I joined the list, and I'd be interested in the > motivation for it. In general, I find shell scripts more pleasant for > hacking on than C code, and there is no long-term plan to replace all C is far more portable than shell. I would imagine the primary target is Windows, where the shell code makes life hard for the poor mingw folk. I think in general it's a good thing to reduce the number of dependencies in a project. One could also argue that C is faster, but that's probably irrelevant for the remaining shell scripts in git. As to shell being easier than C: I'd say that's a matter of opinion - you might find it harder to hack on C, someone else will find it easier. It was always thus. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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
