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

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 31, 2007, 01:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20070731010921.GY20052@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707310245.56077.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > But I *seriously* object to calling egit a porcelain.  egit is a
> > complete reimplementation of git in Java.
> 
> O.K. I was not sure where to put egit (if put it at all). 
> Implementations? Currently we have core-git in C, egit in Java (what is 
> the progress report on this front?), and there was GSoC project of 
> Git.NET (but it didn't start I think).

Right, that's an accurate state of affairs.  Today egit can make
commits on the current branch.  Yay, progress.  :)

> Do you want question about egit in the survey?

Might be nice to know how many people are interested in the Eclipse plugin. But aside from that, I don't think its worth including much about it. Maybe just have a checkbox under some heading like:

  What features is Git currently missing for your needs?
  [ ] Eclipse plugin
  [ ] wizhbang foo thing
  [ ] Other:  ________________________

-- 
Shawn.