Re: Plugin mechanism(s) for Git?

> > Thanks for this great summary of the problem, Christian!
> > 
> > I think a generic plugin mechanism would be great but how would we
> > do it?
> 
> I’m also very glad to see the discussion about coming up with a good
> pattern for how git can interact with external code.  I had also
> noticed all the in-flight topics as I was searching for a good
> pattern to adopt.
> 
> > 
> > We could dynamically load libraries but this would force us to
> > freeze the ABI as mentioned by Duy:
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/298463
> > 
> 
> I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss dynamically loaded libraries as
> there are some distinct advantages over the other patterns especially
> performance and simplicity.  I realize it requires us to version the
> ABI but there are established patterns to manage this.  It also isn’t
> that much different than us having to freeze or version the protocol
> for communicating with a remote-helper.