Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708231110280.16727@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708231051210.20400@racer.site>

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > What is wrong with going from shell to C?  C _is_ portable.  Instead 
> > > of relying on _yet_ another scripting language, introducing _yet_ 
> > > another language that people have to learn to hack git, introducing 
> > > _yet_ another place for bugs to hide, why not just admit that shell is 
> > > nice for _prototyping_?
> > 
> > This is a narrow view of the programming world that I don't share.
> 
> Well, you have to admit that some things are really, really hard to do in 
> shell.  Just from the top of my head: locking, data structures, 
> portability, scalability, process control.  There are a lot more, I guess, 
> but for the _core_ of Git I really prefer C.

I don't dispute that.

I'm more concerned about easy scripting of Git operations that can be shared across different environments.

> I do not want to shove C down the throat of every Git user.  You can use 
> _whatever_ scripting language you like.

Sure. I was thinking that a common scripting language, shipped with Git itself that would work out of the box either on Linux or Windows, could benefit the whole Git user base, with a possible side effect of being able to also run the test suite everywhere. If that has no sufficient merits to other people and only remains a peep dream of mine then so be it.

Nicolas