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

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

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.

I don't think these kinds of laudable efforts can be achieved within
the Git project.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras