Re: GitTogether topics status

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2008, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID: <d411cc4a0809182303x365e2280r3fc8a9a3534d8890@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200809190703.11969.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:

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> Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008, Jakub Narebski a écrit :
>> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
>> > The topics suggested on the wiki are:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > More topics/ideas are welcome.
>>
>> Perhaps a good idea would be to take advantage of whiteboards and
>> meeting face to face, and talk for example about ideas for perfect GUI
>> for git, or for editor/IDE/RAD integration interface, designing
>> mockups of UI.  This could aldo help with improving git homepage (the
>> original one, I guess).
>
> Ok. There are now the following topics together on the wiki:
>
>  * Git GUI that even a designer could use (Git``Cheetah, AKA Tortoise``Git?)
> (UI session?)
>  * Git integration with IDE, RAD, and editors (UI session?)
>  * New Git Homepage hammering-out (UI session?)
>
> The second one is new. And "(UI session?)" was added at the end of each of
> them.
>
>> What also might be interesting to talk about scriptability, having
>> defined API, libification (I see that there is planned), interfaces to
>> other programming languages versus calling git plumbing versus
>> reimplementing git in other languages (e.g. JGit vs JavaGit, Grit vs
>> Ruby/Git, GitPython vs PyGit, Git.pm vs Git::Repo), but I guess this
>> discussion could be had on git mailing list.
>
> The following topics are now together on the wiki:
>
>  * Linkable library for basic object access (libification or new library)
>  * Scriptability, using git in other languages (using interfaces vs calling
> plumbing vs reimplementting)
>
> The second one is new.
>
> If we want these topics to be discussed during the GitTogether, we need
> someone who wants to talk about or at least introduce these subjects
> though. (Hint, hint.)

I would be happy to talk about / introduce at least the second one, since I've done most of the work on the pure-ruby implementation of git in the Grit project, which is one of the more popular of the re-implementations out there (and runs the GitHub site). I would also be happy to help with a discussion on the first one, since I added it to the wiki in the first place and it is heavily connected to the second topic. I very much want to see a library that provides basic Git object access that we can use to write proper bindings in Ruby/Python/Perl. If the current Git code is too difficult to libify properly, then perhaps an alternate C implementation that is built only for that purpose is preferable to having a re-implementation in _every_ language. Looking forward to the discussion.

Scott

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>
> Thanks,
> Christian.
>
>
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