git perl-less build?

[Neal Gompa]

Has anyone written a Python git client based on dulwich
<https://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/> that could be used in Atomic? If I
remember correctly, we still include Python in Atomic images...

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015, at 05:23 AM, Petr Stodulka wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have this request on bugzilla [0] for perl-less build of git due to
> > large dependency on Perl modules, which is unwanted for atomic.
> >
> > I am not sure that's good idea.
> > With this change we will create places for error messages about missing
> > perl modules and that's something what we don't want.
>
> I think we could design things so that existing users got git-perl on
> upgrades.
>
> > E.g. missing git-add--interactive will bring one unusable option which
> > will cause error message like this. I have two other bugs where I solve
> > similar troubles. Separate whole git-add doesn't make sense. So if this
> > is good trade off approved by others, OK, we can do that, with notice
> > that some error messages can appear.
>
> Right, I think were this package to exist, users would understand that
> it doesn't have all of the git functionality.
>
> Mainly, what's desired is the ability to do `git clone`, and other
> read-only
> operations like `git checkout`, etc.
>
> WRT Atomic, it's quite common to store Dockerfiles in git.  So here,
> you want to `git clone` + `docker build -t blah .`.
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