Why does Git depend on perl?

[Michael]

I was not aware that git, internally, has a bunch of perl scripts.
Thank you.

On 2016-04-10, at 6:24 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

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 Yes, my perl was outdated -- why does git need it?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