From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:16:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Are C++ contributions welcome?
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Jose Maria Gomez Vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org> writes:

> I think Git is a really good project and I would like to contribute to it.
> I have been having a look to the source and I have realized on that all
> code is C (well and Perl for some scripts and so..). I know that C++ code
> was not welcome sometime ago, but I don't know if this have changed.
> 
> I don't feel comfortable programing in C and I prefer C++ only because I
> have more experience using this one. May I contribute to this project in
> that language?.

I don't think that C++ would get accepted because it would introduce
another dependency; if not runtime dependency (libstdc++), then build
requirement (C++ compiler).

And I think it doesn't bring much: git is not some GUI application
where OOP works best; it is 'close to the metal' (performance), where
I think C works best.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git