On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 09:10:16PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2025, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:26:36PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On the other hand, maybe the better fix would be to just convert tools > > to not use Perl at all anymore so that we can eventually get rid of this > > dependency altogether. It feels like we're quite close, and many of > > these conversions are low-hanging fruit. > > As for `git filter-branch`, we could simply -- what were the wise words of > Elijah's mentor? -- "debug" it. I.e. delete it and be happy about it. I wouldn't mind it, but we should probably have a proper replacement for it first. Ideally in the form of git-filter-repo(1) being part of Git itself. In any case, meanwhile I have created a follow-up patch series that adapts both git-filter-branch(1) and git-request-pull(1) to not require Perl anymore. Patrick
