Hi, On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > 2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Christian Couder > > <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I will try to have a look at the end of this week. > >> But do you want it to be integrated with Git or do you want it to be an > >> independant project that works with many different version control system? > > > > Hmm. Whatever works, I guess. On the one hand the code does seem > > naturally generic. On the other hand, it's good if users don't > > have to separately obtain an extra package to use it. Supposing that > > the algorithm proves useful, would the git project be okay with an > > extra dependency, or would you want to integrate it? Right now it's in > > python, which I understand is an obstacle to integration. > > There used to be a dependency on python. git-merge-recursive for > example, before it was converted to C. Not "for example". It was the only dependency of git.git on Python, and the rewrite of merge-recursive was only done to break that dependency, as I had a platform where I could not install Python. Ciao, Dscho
