Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] bdl-lib.sh: add bash debug logger

From: Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2018, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKk8isqA6Ru05kRJ+xiVHEkzPgH24cKUZbbgw2tEnw4rhafDQw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1803301231430.5026@qfpub.tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Wink,
>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Wink Saville wrote:
>
>> Add bdl-lib.sh which provides functions to assit in debugging git
>> shell scripts and tests.
>
> Interesting idea. It is Bash-only, though... (and it is not a secret that
> I want to discourage using Unix shell scripts in Git's production code,
> they are a decent way to prototype things, but they fall short of being
> robust and portable in practice, and don't get me started on speed
> issues).
>
> So rather than spending time on making it easier to debug shell scripts, I
> would love to see us going into the direction of a consistent C source
> code. I still believe that we can get there, and that the benefits are
> worth the (huge) effort.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes

I totally agree the code base should use primarily one language!

But that's not the case now and "bdl" gave me insight into the workings of rebase--interactive and I found little guidance on how to debug or learn the code base. So I thought I'd see if there was interest in what I'd done.

If I were to make it non-bash specific would there be any interest?

-- Wink