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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:13:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703161710400.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703161145520.5518@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > We already _have_ the data structures!
> 
> Well... Shawn and I are contemplating alternate data structures to 
> improve things dramatically.

I was alluding to rev_info, not pack_window and friends.

> With a fixed public API I doubt such improvements could be as effective.

Just think of the "API" we have for porcelains. It is literally unchanged 
since the beginning. You can even use the original script git-log.sh 
today! _That_ is what I mean by fixed public API: give certain guarantees 
about what will not go away.

> One thing that was really done right in the Linux kernel is to _not_ 
> have any sort of fixed API at all for drivers.  This is a big upside for 
> progress.  Yet the Linux kernel is regarded as highly useful.

Yes. I am a Linux user myself.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16  4:24 Libification project (SoC) Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16  4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16  5:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16  6:00     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16  6:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16 11:54         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 13:09           ` Rocco Rutte
2007-03-16 15:12             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 15:55               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 16:13                 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-03-16 16:26                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 18:22                     ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-16 18:53                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-18 13:57                         ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 23:26                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:17                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16 18:20               ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:38                 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:59                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 21:07                     ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 23:24                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-17  7:04                         ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-17 17:29                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 19:09                   ` Andy Parkins
2007-03-18 14:08               ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-18 23:48                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19  1:21                   ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19  1:43                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19  2:56                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-19  3:55                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-19 14:57                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 16:28                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-19 16:32                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-21 11:17                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-21 17:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22  9:51                               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-19  7:01                       ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-19  9:46                         ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 10:33                         ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 12:37                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 12:52                           ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19 13:55                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 13:04                           ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 12:53     ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 13:47     ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 14:08       ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 18:38         ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 23:16           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-17 19:58             ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18  5:23               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-18  5:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-18 16:18                   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 19:31                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-19 16:09                       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 21:15                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 15:16       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16  8:06   ` Johannes Sixt
2007-03-16  8:58     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-03-16 11:51       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 12:55   ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-17  2:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-03-17  5:22   ` Shawn O. Pearce

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