[ATN: git maintainer] Git package depends on python

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-05-16 18:24, Warren Young wrote:
> On May 16, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Jon Ross <jonross@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nor can I find any python files in the git package.
>
> /usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4
>
> I expect it is that file (or another like it) that cygport is finding and
> automatically adding the python dependency.

Exactly.

> In the past, packages have had to be restructured to extract such non-core
> commands to avoid this.  In this case, it could be a git-p4 package, just
> for those rare people who use both Git and Perforce.

+1 (and obviously it's manpage should go there too).

-- 
Yaakov

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