From: Alex Riesen Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:47:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] config_set_multivar(): disallow newlines in keys Message-ID: <81b0412b0701230447sb3cb3e6y125be4d4fa8952f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 1/23/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > We probably don't need it libified completely. Just reading and writing of > > > > the object database and tags/references and very simple revision walking > > > > will be a very good start [...] > > > > > > ... and even these use xmalloc(), which die()s on out-of-memory. Note that > > > it would be a really horrible work to libify that, since you basically > > > have to insert gazillions of free() calls at the right point, which we > > > don't have to, since exit() cleans up after us anyway. > > > > Didn't say it'd be simple. Just not impossible. > > I thought that was what you meant by "very simple revision walking". > that'd be "just a part of revision walking". Dunno what part yet, because I still have to come up with convincing example of where only a libgit could be used: just committers and history browsers should not have any problems just using plumbing (no, stupid microsoft's createprocess is not a reason enough).