Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20070823202647.GA3516@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <86mywjcwv7.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup, Wed, Aug 22, 2007 19:17:16 +0200:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > And not making the scripts builtins helps Windows users how,
> > exactly?
> 
> Red herring.  The proposal was not to do nothing, but rather give git
> a dedicated scripting language internal to it.  Two suggestions of
> mine with different advantages were git-busybox and Lua.

Different "disadvantages". How do you do pipes and safe inter-program argument passing in Lua? Portably? What do you propose to do about gitbox becoming a dependency for others, who inevitably start using it (why not? It promised to be portable enough for Git itself!)

> A third one was once proposed by Linus with some code example:
> starting a scripting language from scratch.

It was all about pipes.