On Git for Windows' side, I have opened a ticket [*1*] that even discusses the idea of dropping Perl from Git for Windows' installer altogether. The appeal of this is that Perl is quite a hefty dependency with all of those Perl modules that are part of the set that Perl users simply expect to be present. I did not investigate this fully yet, but would expect a reduction of at least 10MB, and Git for Windows carries this essentially for `git svn` and little else. So yes, I am quite happy about this direction, and could also imagine that at least the Windows test jobs (which use `prove` like the rest of the tests in Git's CI builds) could potentially switch away from `prove` to `test-tool run-command testsuite` and then drop Perl from the `git-sdk-x86_64-minimal` artifact that needs to be downloaded and installed for every single Windows job of Git's CI. (The `test-tool` may need to learn a few more tricks, but I'd be surprised if any non-trivial patches were needed there to essentially replace `prove` as far as Git's needs are concerned.) Ciao, Johannes Footnote *1*: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5393
