From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:02:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)
Message-ID: <20070822150252.GA10531@pe.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20070822144943.GA25527@glandium.org>

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:49:43PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:29:43PM +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> > The problem I see is that C sucks really really bad as a scripting
> > language, and tying together plumbing functionality into porcelain is
> > one of the most powerful, flexible and hack-friendly features of git.
> > Deprecating scripts is making git more opaque.
> (...)
> 
> Having tools being implemented in C rather than shell won't remove the
> tools for you to be able to write scripts and do your plumbing. It might
> remove some examples for you to write your plumbing, though.

Actually, the scripts are being moved into contrib/examples for this
reason, so, they're still available.

-chris