Re: Barebone Porcelain. Where to stop?

> Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>I don't see git going towards stgit at all. Indeed, it gets closer to
>>cogito but I still like cogito over plain git since it's easier to use
>>(my goal, though, is to add pull/clone commands to stgit so that one
>>doesn't need to rely on directly using other tools).
> 
> All good to hear.  I do not speak for Linus, but I think core
> should not be competing with Porcelain.  To me, there are four
> purposes for the barebone Porcelain layer:
> 
>  (1) provide the end user a minimum UI to do essential things.
> 
>  (2) codify the BCP/convention to use the core by higher level
>      SCMs to help them stay compatible with each other where
>      possible (e.g. "what .git/HEAD means, when it gets updated,
>      and to what" was discussed recently).
> 
>  (3) serve as an example for people interested in learning the
>      core GIT (i.e. they may be starting their own Porcelain).
> 
>  (4) implement operations that are heavy on logic/convention but
>      does not have much UI need so that higher level SCMs can
>      implement their own UI by just being a thin wrapper around
>      them (e.g. clone/fetch and push).