Hi Wink, On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Wink Saville wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Wink Saville wrote: > > > >> Add bdl-lib.sh which provides functions to assit in debugging git > >> shell scripts and tests. > > > > Interesting idea. It is Bash-only, though... (and it is not a secret > > that I want to discourage using Unix shell scripts in Git's production > > code, they are a decent way to prototype things, but they fall short > > of being robust and portable in practice, and don't get me started on > > speed issues). > > > > So rather than spending time on making it easier to debug shell > > scripts, I would love to see us going into the direction of a > > consistent C source code. I still believe that we can get there, and > > that the benefits are worth the (huge) effort. > > I totally agree the code base should use primarily one language! Great! > But that's not the case now and "bdl" gave me insight into the workings > of rebase--interactive and I found little guidance on how to debug > or learn the code base. So I thought I'd see if there was interest > in what I'd done. And realistically, requiring Bash is not all that much of a problem when targeting developers. > If I were to make it non-bash specific would there be any interest? After thinking about this more, I am a lot less opposed to including this in Git's source code. However, as it is not necessary for Git's functionality, it should probably go into contrib/, and I would much rather have a more descriptive name such as contrib/bash-debugging-library/... Ciao, Johannes
