Re: [PATCH 0/3] Turn git-rebase--*.sh to external helpers

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 17, 2016, 14:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602171513140.6516@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1455716201-29784-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> We do want to turn all these scripts to C in the end, regardless if the
> conversion is part of any GSoC. So I dug up my code and prepared this.
> Now we need people to convert any git-rebase*.sh to C :)

While I would love to see all these scripts to be converted to builtins, I think that the proposed path would be too painful.

I already started a different route locally (nothing to show yet, mostly because I have to write emails and try to triage the bug tracker instead of doing real work *grmbl*): add a rebase--helper and off-load heavy-duty work from the scripts to that helper.

There are major benefits to do it that way:

- we can focus on the really rewarding parts first, i.e. the parts that
  make the interactive rebase so painfully slow,

- it allows for a painlessly incremental conversion,

- if multiple people are interested in working on the conversion, it can
  happen in parallel.

And probably a few other upsides.

Will keep you posted when I have something to show, Dscho