From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Requirements for integrating a new git subcommand Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:29:39 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121123162939.GA23962@thyrsus.com> References: <20121122053012.GA17265@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git To: Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 23 17:30:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tbw9P-0000LJ-1b for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:30:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755694Ab2KWQa3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:30:29 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59172 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755631Ab2KWQa2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:30:28 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C117A4065F; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:29:39 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn Pearce : > Nope, it just has to be executable. We don't have any current Python > code. IIRC the last Python code was the implementation of > git-merge-recursive, which was ported to C many years ago. This turns out not to be quite true. The tree currently includes two Python scripts, a Perforce importer and a test helper. I'm in he process of writing up a document on command integration based on your answers. I will submit it for incusion in the tree shortly. -- Eric S. Raymond