Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial (for DragonflyBSD)

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 28, 2008, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4907506C.8090609@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <200810272230.51683.arne_bab@web.de>

Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

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> Am Montag 27 Oktober 2008 22:07:16 schrieb Miklos Vajna:
>> IIRC the main reason git aliases can't overwrite git commands is because
>> that would break scripts relying on the output of existing git commands.
>> Given that I install such an extension, won't my script break?
> 
> Since that "script" will likely be an extension which will use the core 
> function instead of the UI command, it won't break. 
> 
> Stuff which does command line parsing can naturally break when I change the 
> output. But it can also directly use the advanced features. 
>

But then you're back with a single language, taking valuable freedom away from the addon author. How many perl gurus have skipped writing stuff for hg because it's a "python-or-bust" thing?

And please don't give me that rubbish of "but Python is obviously better than C". Which one's true (if any) depends only on how you define "better".

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