On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > Also, after looking at libgit in a bit more detail, I think it might be > > necessary to not use it after all, as subversion requires support for > > multiple open repositories, as well as thread safety (at least when > > accessing different open repo from different threads). Perhaps a > > thread-safe git library would be a nice SoC project as well? > > As I said on IRC yesterday, I think that such a libgit.a would be nice, > _but_ > > - a lot of git programs expect to be one-shot, and libgit.a shows that, > > - not many people will help you with your effort, but just ignore it and > actively introduce things that do not help libification (at least that's > my experience), > > - unless you have a proper need for such a library, I do not think there > is enough motivation to actually get it to completion. > I would use it for my pyrite work, although it will be some time before I could contribute to such an effort. I expect it would be useful for anyone who wants to make a language binding that uses native git underneath. Just so you know *someone* will use it. Thanks, Govind. -- 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
