RE: Proposal/Discussion: Turning parts of Git into libraries

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:37 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:45 PM Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> wrote:
>
>> As I mentioned in standup this week[1], my colleagues and I at Google
>> have become very interested in converting parts of Git into libraries
>> usable by external programs. In other words, for some modules which
>> already have clear boundaries inside of Git - like config.[ch],
>> strbuf.[ch], etc. - we want to remove some implicit dependencies, like
>> references to globals, and make explicit other dependencies, like
>> references to other modules within Git. Eventually, we'd like both for
>> an external program to use Git libraries within its own process, and
>> for Git to be given an alternative implementation of a library it uses
>> internally (like a plugin at runtime).
>
>This is obviously the way it should have been done from the beginning, but
>unfortunately at this point the Git project has too much inertia and too many vested
>interests from multi-billion dollar corporations to change.
>
>I wonder if a single person who isn't paid to work on Git commented on this thread.

Raises hand.