On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm planning to apply for the git summer of code project. My proposal
> > > is based on the project idea of a subversion gateway for git,
> > > implemented with a new subversion filesystem layer. A draft of my
> > > proposal follows; I'd appreciate any comments/questions on it before
> > > the application period proper begins.
> >
> > Thanks for all the comments. To try to avoid spamming the list, I've
> > replied in a single message, if it'd be better to reply individually
> > in the future please let me know.
>
> My preference is to have single replies, possibly changing the subject
> ("xyz, was Re: blabla"), but it is maybe just me.
>
> > 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 once thought that libification would be nice, and important, but as I do
> not need it myself, I reversed my opinion.
All right. If I do end up having to recreate (thread-safe,
multiple-git-dir-safe) logic for my project, I'll try to keep in mind
the possibility of spinning it off into a proper library later though
:)
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