From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:41:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)
Message-ID: <86sl6bd1b4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070822150252.GA10531@pe.Belkin>

Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net> writes:

> 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