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

[Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 1:21 PM brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>
> On 2023-02-17 at 21:12:23, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> > Hi folks,
>
> Hey,
>
> > I'm looking forward to the discussion!
>
> While I'm not personally interested in the VFS work, I think it's a
> great idea to turn more of the code into libraries (or at least make it
> more library-like), and so I'm fully in support of this approach.

Yeah, I expect this sentiment is true for most contributors. And I'm
really hoping there are other things which aren't on my radar, but
other contributors are enthusiastic about, that would also be served
by this kind of library approach.

For example, I seem to remember you saying during the SHA-256 series
that the next hashing algorithm would also be painful to implement;
would that still be true if the hashing algorithm is encapsulated well
by a library interface? Or is it for a different reason?

> When
> I send patches in the future, I'll try to make sure that they're
> friendly to this goal.

That's awesome to hear. Thanks, brian.

 - Emily