Hi,
this patch series is a follow-up to my recent series that got rid of our
strict dependency on Perl for running our test suite [1]. The goal of it
is to remove the dependency on Perl in a couple more areas:
- git-filter-branch(1)
- git-request-pull(1)
- Building our documentation.
With these converted you can get a fully-functioning Git distribution
with only a small handful of features missing:
- gitweb.
- Scripts to import repositories from GNU Arch, CVS and Subversion.
- git-send-email.
- Our Perl bindings, obviously.
- The netrc credential helper from "contrib/".
None of these feel critical for day-to-day usage of Git, so Perl is now
a truly-optional dependency of Git.
The series is built on top of 485f5f86361 (The fourth batch, 2025-04-08)
with ps/test-wo-perl-prereq at 7a7b6022670 (t5703: refactor test to not
depend on Perl, 2025-04-03) merged into it.
Thanks!
Patrick
[1]: <20250320-b4-pks-t-perlless-v1-0-b1eefe27ac55@xxxxxx>
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Patrick Steinhardt (4):
filter-branch: stop depending on Perl
request-pull: stop depending on Perl
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to massage user manual
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list
Documentation/Makefile | 8 ++--
Documentation/cmd-list.perl | 80 ----------------------------------
Documentation/cmd-list.sh | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/fix-texi.perl | 15 -------
Documentation/fix-texi.sh | 21 +++++++++
Documentation/meson.build | 4 +-
git-filter-branch.sh | 37 ++++++++--------
git-request-pull.sh | 74 ++++++++++++++++---------------
meson.build | 2 +-
t/t5150-request-pull.sh | 6 ---
10 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
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base-commit: b09b3d4791ed248fed65de18cd6d8c084f7f0280
change-id: 20250409-b4-pks-drop-perl-574571234e3c
