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.
Changes in v2:
- Loosen up semantics when parsing "^{}" from git-ls-remote(1) so that
the new behaviour matches the old one.
- Fix indentation of a couple of case statements.
- Remove explicit `in "$@"` in a for loop.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250415-b4-pks-drop-perl-v1-0-c6addf175858@xxxxxx
Thanks!
Patrick
[1]: <20250320-b4-pks-t-perlless-v1-0-b1eefe27ac55@xxxxxx>
---
Patrick Steinhardt (4):
filter-branch: stop depending on Perl
request-pull: stop depending on Perl
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to massage user manual
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list
Documentation/Makefile | 8 ++--
Documentation/cmd-list.perl | 80 ----------------------------------
Documentation/cmd-list.sh | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/fix-texi.perl | 15 -------
Documentation/fix-texi.sh | 21 +++++++++
Documentation/meson.build | 4 +-
git-filter-branch.sh | 37 ++++++++--------
git-request-pull.sh | 74 ++++++++++++++++---------------
meson.build | 2 +-
t/t5150-request-pull.sh | 6 ---
10 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
Range-diff versus v1:
1: d0aa04cb2e9 = 1: b48e33ada07 filter-branch: stop depending on Perl
2: 0fc604b849d ! 2: 31f54bd63e4 request-pull: stop depending on Perl
@@ git-request-pull.sh: fi
+ while read sha1 ref
+ do
+ case "$ref" in
-+ *"^{}")
-+ ref="${ref%"^{}"}"
++ *"^"?*)
++ ref="${ref%"^"*}"
+ deref=true
+ ;;
+ *)
3: 75dd9df3d83 = 3: 788fb204917 Documentation: stop depending on Perl to massage user manual
4: 9c4b5c330b4 ! 4: c770a80762b Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list
@@ Documentation/cmd-list.sh (new)
+ while read line
+ do
+ case "$state" in
-+ 0)
-+ case "$line" in
-+ git*\(*\)|scalar*\(*\))
-+ mansection="${line##*\(}"
-+ mansection="${mansection%\)}"
-+ ;;
-+ NAME)
-+ state=1;;
-+ esac
-+ ;;
-+ 1)
-+ if test "$line" = "----"
-+ then
-+ state=2
-+ fi
-+ ;;
-+ 2)
-+ description="$line"
-+ break
++ 0)
++ case "$line" in
++ git*\(*\)|scalar*\(*\))
++ mansection="${line##*\(}"
++ mansection="${mansection%\)}"
+ ;;
++ NAME)
++ state=1;;
++ esac
++ ;;
++ 1)
++ if test "$line" = "----"
++ then
++ state=2
++ fi
++ ;;
++ 2)
++ description="$line"
++ break
++ ;;
+ esac
+ done <"$path"
+
@@ Documentation/cmd-list.sh (new)
+ fi
+
+ case "$description" in
-+ "$command - "*)
-+ text="${description#$command - }"
++ "$command - "*)
++ text="${description#$command - }"
+
-+ printf "linkgit:%s[%s]::\n\t" "$command" "$mansection"
-+ case "$attributes" in
-+ *" deprecated "*)
-+ printf "(deprecated) "
-+ ;;
-+ esac
-+ printf "$text.\n\n"
-+ ;;
-+ *)
-+ echo >&2 "Description does not match $command: $description"
-+ exit 1
++ printf "linkgit:%s[%s]::\n\t" "$command" "$mansection"
++ case "$attributes" in
++ *" deprecated "*)
++ printf "(deprecated) "
+ ;;
++ esac
++ printf "$text.\n\n"
++ ;;
++ *)
++ echo >&2 "Description does not match $command: $description"
++ exit 1
++ ;;
+ esac
+}
+
@@ Documentation/cmd-list.sh (new)
+build_dir="$2"
+shift 2
+
-+for out in "$@"
++for out
+do
+ category="${out#cmds-}"
+ category="${category%.adoc}"
---
base-commit: b09b3d4791ed248fed65de18cd6d8c084f7f0280
change-id: 20250409-b4-pks-drop-perl-574571234e3c
