Re: thread-safe libgit.a as a GSoC project, was Re: [SoC RFC] libsvn-fs-git: A git backend for the subversion filesystem

From: Govind Salinas <govind@sophiasuchtig.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2008, 01:34 UTC
Message-ID: <5d46db230803221834n7c230447r2afffdaae79e4068@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803221229410.4124@racer.site>

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>  On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
>  > Also, after looking at libgit in a bit more detail, I think it might be
>  > necessary to not use it after all, as subversion requires support for
>  > multiple open repositories, as well as thread safety (at least when
>  > accessing different open repo from different threads). Perhaps a
>  > thread-safe git library would be a nice SoC project as well?
>
>  As I said on IRC yesterday, I think that such a libgit.a would be nice,
>  _but_
>
>  - a lot of git programs expect to be one-shot, and libgit.a shows that,
>
>  - not many people will help you with your effort, but just ignore it and
>   actively introduce things that do not help libification (at least that's
>   my experience),
>
>  - unless you have a proper need for such a library, I do not think there
>   is enough motivation to actually get it to completion.
>

I would use it for my pyrite work, although it will be some time before I could contribute to such an effort. I expect it would be useful for anyone who wants to make a language binding that uses native git underneath.

Just so you know *someone* will use it.

Thanks, Govind.