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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC variant 2 of 2] "needs update" considered harmful
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:27:21 -0400
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I personally think there is nothing wrong if Porcelain and plumbing use
> different languages, by the way.

Do you expect such a clean separation? That a given command is either
plumbing or porcelain but never both? If not, then a command might
want to emit different output depending upon context. Perhaps an
environment variable, along the lines of how one sets locale on Unix,
could indicate to a git command whether it running as plumbing or not.

Just a thought.

j.