Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How you use GIT > > > > 8. Which porcelains do you use? > > (zero or more: multiple choice) > > - core-git, cogito, StGIT, pg, guilt, egit (Eclipse), other > > 9. Which git GUI do you use > > (zero or more: multiple choice) > > - gitk, git-gui, qgit, gitview, giggle, tig, instaweb, > > (h)gct, qct, KGit, other > > I'll give you git-gui as a GUI here instead of a porcelain. > > But I *seriously* object to calling egit a porcelain. egit is a > complete reimplementation of git in Java. Calling it a porcelain > is wrong. Robin, David and myself have put a considerable amount > of effort into keeping egit 100% pure Java, so it is Write Once, > Test Everywhere. > > The _only_ code that egit has borrowed from core Git has been the > packfile delta decompressor. Everything else is a reimplementation. > Just not 100% blackbox, as the egit developers have looked at the > core Git source before. Heck, we have even been known to contribute > a patch here or there to core Git. :) > > All of the other porcelains that you listed reuse the core Git > plumbing and are thus true porcelain. But egit doesn't. O.K. I was not sure where to put egit (if put it at all). Implementations? Currently we have core-git in C, egit in Java (what is the progress report on this front?), and there was GSoC project of Git.NET (but it didn't start I think). Do you want question about egit in the survey? -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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
