Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] bisect--helper: `write_terms` shell function in C

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2016, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1gjfFC_v23RDiHedzwQm3XoYJKv32GT7R9GNyK4pXJpQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1605231301560.4122@virtualbox>

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 20 May 2016, Pranit Bauva wrote:
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>> Frankly, I have no idea what you mean by libification but I will use
>> error() since efforts for libification have already started.
>
> The term "libification" is frequently used in the Git project: it means to
> convert code that was formerly used in a standalone program to make it
> usable as a library function.

Yeah, and Git standalone programs in C are builtin/*.c files, while Git lib code in C is in *.{c,h} files at the root of the repo.

The build also generates libgit.a from all the lib code, for example:

$ touch bisect.c
$ make CFLAGS="-g3 -Wall"
    CC bisect.o
    AR libgit.a
...