Re: Libification project (SoC)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 16, 2007, 15:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703161612380.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070316104715.483df0d5@localhost>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:

>  It doesn't need to be the next five-zilion-function-library that will 
> provide the wonders of git in several different ways.

Yes. Just like we have a really small really stable part of core-git, which can be used by porcelains, and is expected to work the same in future versions, we could have eventually with libgit.

That would mean, for example, that rev_info should always be initialised with malloc() so that future versions can make it bigger, and that new members be added always at the end.

>  We could start by fixing the got-an-error-die behaivor and define a 
> _experimental_ API (just a few functions) just to get data out of git.

That sounds very reasonable.

And if it does not work out as expected, we don't have to make it part of "official" Git. It can live on as a fork.

Ciao, Dscho