On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:26:25AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>: > > I think there are really two separate use cases to consider: > > > > 1. Providing snippets of script to Git to get Turing-complete behavior > > for existing Git features. For example, selecting commits during a > > traversal (e.g., a better "log --grep"), formatting output (e.g., a > > better "log --format" or "for-each-ref --format"). > > > > 2. Writing whole new git commands in a language that is quicker or > > easier to develop in than C. > > That's good analysis. I agree with your use-case split, I guess I'm just not > very aware of the places in git where (1) is important. Yeah, I don't think (1) is your use case at all. But when people talk about "Jeff's lua experiment", they are talking about some patches I had to do (1), which covered "log --format" (but ultimately would need more cleanup to be acceptable upstream). Maybe that clears up the discussion a little bit. -Peff -- 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