From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:28:15 GMT
Subject: Re: StGIT vs. guilt: What's the difference?
Message-ID: <20070617222815.GA4324@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070617035923.GI7025@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:59:23PM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote:
> > Well, people may not like python, but IMHO it is a lot easier to learn
> > it if you don't know it (that's what I did, although I did not start
> > from zero), than writing a robust and maintainable software of even
> > moderate complexity in shell script.  Shell script may be good for
> > prototyping or gluing tools in a simple way, but for advanced sofware
> > on which to rely to store my own data, it is just not really suited.
> 
> So, why do you use git? ;)

There is no such problem in git, since only some porcelain commands are
still written in shell - and anyway C rewrites are quite fashionable those
days ;)

Best regards,
-- 
Yann.