From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:10:42 GMT
Subject: Re: libgit2 status
Message-ID: <7vfw78s1kd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <nnglih0jotj.fsf@transit.us.cray.com>

<dag@cray.com> writes:

> I am hoping to move git-subtree into core once it performs a little
> better and I've fixed a couple of bugs.  Will basing it on libgit2 delay
> that process significantly?  Six months delay is no problem.  2 years
> would be problematic.
>
> I would be happy to be a guinea pig for libgit2 in order to improve it,
> but I don't want to significantly impact git-subtree's move to core.
> I'll have to figure out the right balance there given feedback.

I expect it will take some time for libgit2 to allow our Makefile to
start saying "LDFLAGS += -libgit2"; it will need to become as stable
and widespread as other libraries we depend on, e.g. -lz and -lcurl.