Much of the early git scripts (e.g. git-pull) have been rewritten in C. Performance is one reason. Helping out win32 (where fork+exec is slow) is another.

Much of the early git scripts (e.g. git-pull) have been rewritten in C. Performance is one reason. Helping out win32 (where fork+exec is slow) is another. $ ls -1 git-*.sh | wc -l 25 $ ls -1 git-*.perl | wc -l 9 Compare this to the built-in commands: $ ls -1 builtin/*.c | wc -l 92 or all the C files: $ git ls-files '*.c' | wc -l 306