Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: remove suggestion to write commands in Perl/SH

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 10:43:54AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Remove a suggestion to write new commands in Perl or Shell to
> experiment. This advice was added in 6d0618a820a (Add
> Documentation/CodingGuidelines, 2007-11-08).
>
> Since then the consensus changed to having no new such commands unless
> necessary, and existing ones have been actively migrated to C.
>
> Signed-off-by: ??var Arnfj??r?? Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>

The patch looks good - but the Umlauts are garbled:
ISO-2022-JP is used ?

> ---
>  Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> index 45465bc0c98..b9cd55db6a8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> @@ -416,11 +416,6 @@ For C programs:
>     that are made available to it by including one of the header files
>     it must include by the previous rule.
>
> - - If you are planning a new command, consider writing it in shell
> -   or perl first, so that changes in semantics can be easily
> -   changed and discussed.  Many Git commands started out like
> -   that, and a few are still scripts.
> -
>   - Avoid introducing a new dependency into Git. This means you
>     usually should stay away from scripting languages not already
>     used in the Git core command set (unless your command is clearly
> --
> 2.31.1.687.g1d87aeed692
>