Re: [RFC (take 2) Git User's Survey 2007

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 31, 2007, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20070731003251.GW20052@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707302256.38251.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> How you use GIT
> 
>     8. Which porcelains do you use?
>        (zero or more: multiple choice)
>     -  core-git, cogito, StGIT, pg, guilt, egit (Eclipse), other
>     9. Which git GUI do you use
>        (zero or more: multiple choice)
>     -  gitk, git-gui, qgit, gitview, giggle, tig, instaweb,
>        (h)gct, qct, KGit, other

I'll give you git-gui as a GUI here instead of a porcelain.

But I *seriously* object to calling egit a porcelain. egit is a complete reimplementation of git in Java. Calling it a porcelain is wrong. Robin, David and myself have put a considerable amount of effort into keeping egit 100% pure Java, so it is Write Once, Test Everywhere.

The _only_ code that egit has borrowed from core Git has been the packfile delta decompressor. Everything else is a reimplementation. Just not 100% blackbox, as the egit developers have looked at the core Git source before. Heck, we have even been known to contribute a patch here or there to core Git. :)

All of the other porcelains that you listed reuse the core Git plumbing and are thus true porcelain. But egit doesn't.

-- 
Shawn.