Re: [RFC PATCH] repack: rewrite the shell script in C.

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2013, 04:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AZ+xLURszWni1wdZw7e6ZvE0je9_ELcj6gCzaEyNNLmQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201308141125.59991.mfick@codeaurora.org>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:

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> The script really is mostly a policy script, and with the
> discussions happening in other threads about how to improve
> git gc, I think it is helpful to potentially be able to
> quickly modify the policies in this script, it makes it
> easier to prototype things.  Shell portability issues aside,
> this script is not a low level type of tool that I feel will
> benefit from being in C, I feel it will in fact be worse off
> in C,

I think C is better for the modification you made in git-exproll.sh, if it gets merged to git-repack.sh. Such calculations are not a strong point of shell scripting. git-repack.sh is still around for experimenting, although I think perl, ruby or python is better than shell for prototyping.

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Duy