On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:44:11 -0400 Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That can lead to feature bloat. Some plugins are not useful to > everyone, e.g. Mercurial repository support. Some plugins introduce > additional dependencies that we don't want to have in the core (e.g. the > rsync, baz-import and graph-ancestry commands). Shrug, it's really not that tough to do in regular ole source code. On Fedora for instance you have your choice of which rpms you want to install to get the features of Git you want. > Plugins also don't have a Bazaar's rigid release cycle, testing > requirements and coding conventions, so they are a convenient way to try > out an idea, before committing to the effort of getting it merged into > the core. Hmm.. It's pretty easy to test out Git ideas too. People do it all the time, and without plugins. Junio maintains several such trees for instance. Dunno.. I just think plugs _sounds_ good to developers without much real benefit to users over regular ole source code. > The bisect plugin is just as performant as any other bzr command. (The > whole VCS is in Python.) Most people don't use it, so we don't ship it > as part of the base install, but anyone who wants it can have it. Sure, and anyone who wants to use StGit on top of Git can download and use it as well. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html