[PATCH 0/3] Blame UI

John Keeping john at keeping.me.uk
Wed Aug 12 17:26:03 CEST 2015


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 05:07:12PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Relying on an installed git does impose an additional deployment
> requirement we didn't have before. Previously git was just required
> for running the tests (developers), but not for deployment.

I'd be surprised if most people don't already have Git on their system,
given that they certainly have Git repositories!  Although I suppose
it's possible to have CGit running in a container that can see the
repositories but doesn't have git available.

> I'll wait to receive some other opinions on the topic of relying on
> having the executables around.
> 
> Alternatively - any chance of working with upstream to make it a more
> generic interface?

There's enough code to work through and understand (including quite a
lot that isn't used in our scenario) that it's outside the scope of my
CGit budget at the moment.


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