From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:27:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC variant 2 of 2] "needs update" considered harmful
Message-ID: <76718490807211027t45082c7fs3509c4b9abb571d8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6k73s2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I personally think there is nothing wrong if Porcelain and plumbing use
> different languages, by the way.

Do you expect such a clean separation? That a given command is either
plumbing or porcelain but never both? If not, then a command might
want to emit different output depending upon context. Perhaps an
environment variable, along the lines of how one sets locale on Unix,
could indicate to a git command whether it running as plumbing or not.

Just a thought.

j.