Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
- Date
- Aug 22, 2007, 15:41 UTC
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- <20070822150252.GA10531@pe.Belkin>
Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net> writes:
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> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:49:43PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:29:43PM +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: >> > The problem I see is that C sucks really really bad as a scripting >> > language, and tying together plumbing functionality into porcelain is >> > one of the most powerful, flexible and hack-friendly features of git. >> > Deprecating scripts is making git more opaque. >> (...) >> >> Having tools being implemented in C rather than shell won't remove the >> tools for you to be able to write scripts and do your plumbing. It might >> remove some examples for you to write your plumbing, though. > > Actually, the scripts are being moved into contrib/examples for this > reason, so, they're still available.
But they will eventually fall prey to bitrot and stop corresponding to the actual documented commands.
-- David Kastrup