start of git2 (based on libgit2)

From: Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2011, 23:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20110325231203.GA7961@jakstys.lt>

Hello,

I wrote similar letter before, but did not receive feedback I was expecting.

I think libgit2 is an amazing thing, and I started writing[1] cli client for
it. This is what it can do now:
    $ git2 rev-list <anything>

Which is roughly equivalent to:
    $ git rev-list HEAD

I do not know how it will figure out past merge history, but that's for the future.

I want to get started with it, but before that I want and discuss some architectural questions.

According to Jeff King[2], I should start with plumbing commands. I agree. However, how deep? I.e. do I have to make sure all git rev-list possible arguments are implemented?

Are we aiming for a distributed 100s of executables architecture (current git), or single huge binary? I would go for single executable for to higher portability. Is that ok?

Build tool. Currently libgit2 uses waf. I am not against it (I've chosen waf for one of my own C++ projects), However, it's too clumsy for me. Is it me who lacks experience? Scons looks much easier for me. Moreover, we do not need automatic configuration, so it makes waf "overfeatured".

Build configuration. Git-send-email is not really a must-have for an embedded device, so we should be able to specify these features in configure-time. How do you think it should be taken care of?

1) <buildtool> configure  --disable-everything --enable-email
2) make menuconfig and enjoy the blue screen of choice
3) anything else?

Waiting for your answers, will go on working.

I am a student and would like to do this take this up in GSOC. I just received a letter from Vicent Marti with sort of confirmation that the project is interesting for the community. I'm happy about it. Currently I am a full-time python programmer, but have done some C++. I created SoundPatty[3], a real-time sound recognition (record) application for my job VoIP recognition needs.

In case you have any questions, opinions, please ask. Thank you.

[1] https://github.com/Motiejus/git2/ [2] http://marc.info/?l=3Dgit&m=3D130081966214059&w=3D4 [3] https://github.com/Motiejus/SoundPatty/ [CV] http://m.jakstys.lt/

Motiejus Jakštys