David Kastrup, Wed, Aug 22, 2007 19:17:16 +0200: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > And not making the scripts builtins helps Windows users how, > > exactly? > > Red herring. The proposal was not to do nothing, but rather give git > a dedicated scripting language internal to it. Two suggestions of > mine with different advantages were git-busybox and Lua. Different "disadvantages". How do you do pipes and safe inter-program argument passing in Lua? Portably? What do you propose to do about gitbox becoming a dependency for others, who inevitably start using it (why not? It promised to be portable enough for Git itself!) > A third one was once proposed by Linus with some code example: > starting a scripting language from scratch. It was all about pipes. - 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
