Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 16:30 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910708230930k3f6d1b4i47d03753bc0d3c1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070823112413.GJ7267@thunk.org>

On 8/23/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> I don't know enough about LUA to say for sure.  Having taken a quick
> look at lua.org, the implementation looks pleasantly small, and LUA
> scripts look more comprehensible than say Tcl (which is not saying
> much, I know).  But part of "show me the code" is people demonstrating
> that no really, LUA is an appropriate tool for simple scripts that is
> portable enough that we don't need to have external dependencies on
> bash and perl, and that it is easier than rewriting all of our shell
> scripts in C.  Maybe that is a true statement.  I don't know.  My
> suggestion to "Show us the code" was a way of hoping someone who cared
> enough about this issue could show us.

I just threw LUA out as an example of a tiny language in the hope of avoiding something giant like mono. LUA is already installed on most Linux distributions, liblua50.so on mine. It is 100KB.

LUA is used as a scripting language in some popular games. Because of that it has good ports to Mac/Windows. There are over a dozen books on Amazon about using LUA.

I only care about the scripting issue in that I don't want git to get tied to a giant scripting system. LUA is small enough to package with git.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com