Re: slurping in guilt, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Stacked GIT 0.14.2

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2008, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1w5xch6h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803251048320.10660@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> [cutting down the Cc: list to the most-likely-interested parties]
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Josef Sipek wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> > Not my mumbling, but I am quite open to slurp in guilt as a 
>> > subdirectory in git.git at some point in the future just like we 
>> > bundle git-gui and gitk if asked by the maintainer.
>>
>> That'd be great!  Is there anything special you want me to do?  Well, I 
>> want to finish up a merge I've been working on first.
>
> Would it not be more appropriate to slurp it in as a subproject?  But then 
> the same grace period as for git-gui and gitk would apply, since we still 
> expect some users not to have a submodule capable git...

All true. On the other hand we could start with a subtree merge and later switch.

In any case, the answer to Josef's question is to make sure I won't hear objections on the list that say "No, the stuff is still too premature to live in git.git itself and needs this and that fixups to be usable for the general public." ;-) IOW, keep up the good work. Gathering a bit more followers, preferably outside this mailing list (such as wine, x.org and/or the kernel community), would not hurt.