Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 20:34:25 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: >> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Get rid of plumbing at the command line level. >> > >> > We can't get rid of plumbing. >> >> What about "at the command line level" did you not understand? > > Which part of we neither can nor want did you not understant? > > The availability of plumbing is really big part of a reason why git is > so good and has so many scripts and tool built on top of it. Which is the reason I proposed making the plumbing available at a scripting level, not at the command line level. The actual trend we are getting nowadays is locking the porcelaine, previously available as shell scripts, down into C code, _without_ making use of a reasonable plumbing layer suitable for any scripting at all. So the git community at the same time praises shell scripting and simultanouesly replaces it without even using the available plumbing, _and_ claims that _both_, exclusive and incompatible approaches, are the perfect solution. At the same time. While fighting the shell portability fight continuously, on Unix as well as Windows. I may have a big mouth, but swallowing all of this at once is beyond me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
