Why does Git depend on perl?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why does git need perl? Yes, my perl was outdated -- why does git need it?


left-ear Z$ file /opt/local/libexec/git-core/* | grep perl
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive:         a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-archimport:               a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-cvsexportcommit:          a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-cvsimport:                a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-cvsserver:                a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-difftool:                 a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-relink:                   a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-send-email:               a
/opt/local/bin/perl5.22 script text executable

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