On Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:37 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:45 PM Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> As I mentioned in standup this week[1], my colleagues and I at Google >> have become very interested in converting parts of Git into libraries >> usable by external programs. In other words, for some modules which >> already have clear boundaries inside of Git - like config.[ch], >> strbuf.[ch], etc. - we want to remove some implicit dependencies, like >> references to globals, and make explicit other dependencies, like >> references to other modules within Git. Eventually, we'd like both for >> an external program to use Git libraries within its own process, and >> for Git to be given an alternative implementation of a library it uses >> internally (like a plugin at runtime). > >This is obviously the way it should have been done from the beginning, but >unfortunately at this point the Git project has too much inertia and too many vested >interests from multi-billion dollar corporations to change. > >I wonder if a single person who isn't paid to work on Git commented on this thread. Raises hand.
