Re: wip patch for using external git command

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Aleksey Cheusov <vle%gmx.net@localhost> writes:

>> Why is this not just an instance of the tools platform finding and
>> accepting a native tool, rather than patching something not to use the
>> tools framework?   It seems like the change is in the wrong place.
>
> I've added support for tool "git" and patch for wip. See attachments.

This seems reasonable to me.  I would really like to hear from others
especially those more familiar with the tools framework.  While I have
an opinion that tools-type use should use it, I've never added a tool.

Not sure it's a good idea to worry about this, but I wonder how we
decide what version is good enough and document that, and how we deal
with that in tools.${PLATFORM}.  I guess as it stands, if macOS or a
GNU/Linux system has git, it's good enough, and it seems pretty likely
that for what git-package wants, that will be ok.

Have you run this code on NetBSD, macOS, linux?