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Interesting that git and redo share the problem of providing POSIX utilities on Windows. Interesting also that nobody seems to have suggested a merge between th
by regularfry 16y ago
Interesting that git and redo share the problem of providing POSIX utilities on Windows. Interesting also that nobody seems to have suggested a merge between the two. If redo is that small, would it not be feasible to package it as git-redo and not solve the same problem twice?
- uxp 16y agogit and redo have nothing in common, except for being a utility developers may use. If nothing else, they should never be merged because they are trying to provide a POSIX utility, which should always be: "Do one thing and do it well"
- bryanlarsen 16y agoInteresting thought, except the article specifically says that git does NOT have this problem.
- krakensden 16y agoThat's because there is nothing about git that requires you to implement it with sh, that was just the way it was written. `redo' has you literally writing shell scripts to describe the construction process, which means you either need sh, or you need to write entirely new scripts for running on Windows
- coliveira 16y agoredo has the same problem of git because both are supposed to be used in as a small part of the UNIX environment. In this regard, it is not different from make.