Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Honestly speaking, this is looking more like an "useful application for > latex users who happen to use git to store their document source", and not > a "useful addition for all git users", to me. > > These two viewpoint suggests completely different evolution path for this > program. Imagining what the first major new enhancement intended for > people outside the original audience <git,latex> will be, I have this > suspicion that "this new version will help people who have their documents > stored in Mercurial" would be much more realistic (and the end result > being useful) than "this new version will help git users who do not write > their documents in latex but in asciidoc". I agree that the next step may be to allow users of <whatever SCM outside Git>, but I don't think the way to do that would be to make the script generic. The script is a quick hack, and all the "clever" parts of it are calls to Git. If someone were to adapt this for Mercurial or Bzr, writting a python plugin would be a much better way to go (Mercurial already has "hg extdiff" doing the hardlinked checkouts for example, and both would allow better command-line option parsing than my "case $1 in ... esac"). I normally like code reuse very much, but trying to make a 250 lines long script generic enough to accept multiple SCMs would be more work than a rewrite. OTOH, having this script in contrib/ has several advantages over maintaining it as a separate one-file project: - "make install" uses Git's Makefile configuration, so it's easy to install. - It makes it natural to use this mailing list for discussion. The script has already improved a lot since I posted it as a patch here. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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