From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: David Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Build a shared / renamed / "stable" version of the library?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:10:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050916211040.GU7646@kiste.smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmzmcj1eo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Hi,
Junio C Hamano:
> Matthias, I think you are solving a wrong problem. More
> precisely, solving problems in a wrong order.
>
I've since looked a bit more closely at the "library" code, and ...
well, you're obviously right. :-/
> can read many blobs without spawning git-cat-file for each of
> them, but that is about how far you could go.
Precisely that was the first application I needed the library for. ;-)
> Don't get me wrong. I would really want to see the guts of git
> libified and SWIG'ed. That would help not just your Python
> thing but also StGIT and Fredrik merge (both are Python), as
> well as gitk (tcl/tk) and gitweb (Perl). I would not even mind
> seeing all the git barebone Porcelain redone in Python once we
> go in that direction, ditching the shell scripts we currently
> have.
>
You and me both...
> *5* Maybe we would want separate git_init_cache,
> git_init_objects, ... and be able to mix and match them. Maybe
> not.
>
Makes sense. First steps would probably be to invent "struct
git_repository" and "struct git_cache" data structures. Fun. ;-)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 12:37 [PATCH/RFC] Build a shared / renamed / "stable" version of the library? Matthias Urlichs
2005-09-16 14:41 ` A Large Angry SCM
2005-09-16 18:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 19:48 ` Chuck Lever
2005-09-16 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 20:17 ` Chuck Lever
2005-09-16 21:10 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
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