Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it. How will a library
>> become widespread unless something uses it?
>
> That something will not be the git core itself. Otherwise we will
> lose a stable reference implementation to catch its bugs.
Well, the whole question here is whether git-subtree can become part of
core if it is based on libgit2. It boils down to what you mean by
"widespread," I guess. Does "widespread" mean "available as a package
in major distributions," "installed by default in major distributions"
or something else?
-Dave
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