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One difficulty with this project is to identify uncontroversial cases
(where Git should merge without complaining) and all the possible
corner-cases.

### Convert scripts to builtins

Many components of Git are still in the form of shell and Perl scripts.
While this is an excellent choice as long as the functionality is
improved, it causes problems in production code – in particular on
multiple platforms, e.g. Windows (think: POSIX-to-Windows path
conversion issues).

The idea of this project is to dive into the Git source code and
convert, say, `git-add--interactive.perl` and/or `git stash` into
proper C code, making it a so-called "built-in".