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Why is git still a collection of bash scripts ? Does nobody care enough to wrap the core into a library (yes, i do know about the glacial libgit2 project) and put a Python/Ruby/Lua interface over it ?

Dulwich exists, but it is not a drop-in replacement.

When will I get a true platform independent Git (none of the msysgit stuff) ?

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It is still bash because bash is more universal than Python+Ruby+Lua.

The only place bash doesn't exist is on Windows and installing Cygwin is the least of your worries in that case.

we have selenium testcases that need to be run on IE. We need to have a revision control on windows. Please dont be dismissive of windows just because you can, some of us have to make a living.

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