Re: ambiguous git-log date and timestamp syntax

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 2, 2008, 02:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803020240390.22527@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200803012326.05698.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> BTW. Git has few other such "reimplementing the wheel" things, like 
> strbuf, or ALLOC_GROW, or it's own parseopt. I guess main reasons are to 
> avoid adding yet another dependency, and that existing solutions doesn't 
> fill all git needs.

Or that the existing wheels are quadratic wheels, and flat.

Just look at our own parse-options.[ch]. It is _still_ smaller and less difficult to read than GNU getopt. Yet, it is also much more powerful and easier to use.

Likewise, strbuf compares to Bstring, for example (although you might say that Bstring is more powerful, but it comes at a price: it clutters the namespace, and is not as performant as strbuf).

ALLOC_GROW() is so small as to not merit any third-party dependency.

Also, I'd like to caution that depending on 3rd-party libraries is not always easy: just think about how much pain we suffer from the ever-changing asciidoc package, and the problems wit docbook xsl.

Ciao, Dscho