Re: Problems using perl's Git.pm module

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2010, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20101202181425.GG3962@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikQdw3aafsfP+SCQ-z9_TZrPJx694QOSeNTrvp6@mail.gmail.com>

demerphq wrote:

> On 2 December 2010 18:46, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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>>> Why are you using it? It's for internal use only.
>>
>> That is not a valid question nor answer, I am afraid.
>
> So you are saying that it is for more than internal use?

I assume so. I had guessed the same thing (that it is meant to be generally useful), based on the following:

 - it is installed to be usable with a simple "use Git"
   automatically

 - "perldoc Git" tells me that this module gives Perl scripts an easy
   way to interface the Git version control system, not that it is an
   implementation artifact

 - tools like "git svn" were not historically part of core git, and
   usage by them was not exactly internal use.

Hope that helps. Jonathan