From a7fa5b2f0ccb567a5a6afedece113f207902fa6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:16:10 +0200 Subject: Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The "cmd-list.perl" script is used to extract the list of commands part of a specific category and extracts the description of each command from its respective manpage. The generated output is then included in git(1) to list all Git commands. The script is written in Perl. Refactor it to use shell scripting exclusively so that we can get rid of the mandatory dependency on Perl to build our documentation. The converted script is slower compared to its Perl implementation. But by being careful and not spawning external commands in `format_one ()` we can mitigate the performance hit to a reasonable level: Benchmark 1: Perl Time (mean ± σ): 10.3 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 7.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms] Range (min … max): 10.0 ms … 11.1 ms 200 runs Benchmark 2: Shell Time (mean ± σ): 74.4 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 48.6 ms, System: 24.7 ms] Range (min … max): 73.1 ms … 75.5 ms 200 runs Summary Perl ran 7.23 ± 0.13 times faster than Shell While a sevenfold slowdown is significant, the benefit of not requiring Perl for a fully-functioning Git installation outweighs waiting a couple of milliseconds longer during the build process. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/Makefile') diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 6485d40f62..b109d25e9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -317,8 +317,8 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.adoc \ $(cmds_txt): cmd-list.made -cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) - $(QUIET_GEN)$(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl .. . $(cmds_txt) && \ +cmd-list.made: cmd-list.sh ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) + $(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./cmd-list.sh .. . $(cmds_txt) && \ date >$@ mergetools-%.adoc: generate-mergetool-list.sh ../git-mergetool--lib.sh $(wildcard ../mergetools/*) -- cgit v1.3-5-g9baa