On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 7:34 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20 2021, Taylor Blau wrote: > > But I don't think we even need to, since we could just rely on Awk. That > > has all the benefits you described while still avoiding the circular > > dependency on libgit.a. But the killer feature is that we don't have to > > rely on two implementations, the lesser-used of which is likely to > > bitrot over time. > > Per Eric's Sunshine's upthread comments an awk and Perl implementation > were both considered before[1]. > 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cSzKoOzU-zPOZqfNpPYBFpcWqvDP3mwLvAn5WkiNW0UMw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks for saving me the trouble of digging up that email reference.
