From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:59:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703161454280.18328@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550703161138x5ab1fe3anf7b2aaab81bb77e4@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On 3/16/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > *The most important thing for a libgit to be used by qgit is reentrancy*
> > 
> 
> Another crtitical feature is that this call to git-rev-list-like
> function MUST be non-blocking.

I'm not sure I agree.

The non-blockingness can be (and probably should be) handled at a higher 
level with your own threading facility of choice.  Making GIT 
restartable has the potential for making the core code much too complex.


Nicolas