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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:01:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steven Penny <svnpenn AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Removing Git dependency on Perl [Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.13.2-2]
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:11:41, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Hmm.  I'm struggling to work out what's appropriate here.  I'd be
> entirely happy splitting off the `git archimport` command to a separate
> package if there were something to gain there, but I'm very wary of
> splitting `git add -p` and friends off: I think that's liable to cause
> considerable confusion for people who use those commands and who would
> probably not expect to need a separate package for them.
> 
> I'm experimenting with what this would look like now, but if you can
> find and point me at some other platform's Git distribution that also
> separates out `git-add--interactive`, so I can see how they've handled
> this situation, that would potentially be very useful.

Good points. We might need to just leave it alone for the time being:

1. One person has already spoken up in this thread against it:

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-07/msg00287.html

2. Debian Git still requires it:

   http://packages.debian.org/experimental/git

3. git-add--interactive.perl is still being worked on, 14 commits this year:

   http://github.com/git/git/commits/master/git-add--interactive.perl

So until they rewrite it in C, we might need to just keep things the way they
are. I dont use it with my workflow, so its a shame to pull in Perl for a single
file that I do not use, but I get the arguments against.


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