From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:39:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Trial git RPM's..
Message-ID: <m11x647nnw.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507111815180.17536@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Actually I was looking at doing a git-ident thing that will
>> just compute who git thinks you are.  And then git-commit-tree can
>> just popen it to share code.  That looks like how the logic has
>> been accomplished in other places.
>
> I hate popen() if there's a reasonable functional interface in a library.
> popen() is damn inefficient for doing something like this that is all C 
> anyway.

Ok two new files then.  The new library function, and then
the utility that calls it.

Eric