Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:49:43PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:29:43PM +0200, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The problem I see is that C sucks really really bad as a scripting >> > language, and tying together plumbing functionality into porcelain is >> > one of the most powerful, flexible and hack-friendly features of git. >> > Deprecating scripts is making git more opaque. >> (...) >> >> Having tools being implemented in C rather than shell won't remove the >> tools for you to be able to write scripts and do your plumbing. It might >> remove some examples for you to write your plumbing, though. > > Actually, the scripts are being moved into contrib/examples for this > reason, so, they're still available. But they will eventually fall prey to bitrot and stop corresponding to the actual documented commands. -- David Kastrup - 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
