From: dag@cray.com
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:21:55 GMT
Subject: Re: libgit2 status
Message-ID: <nng4nnohvyk.fsf@transit.us.cray.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v6284qfw8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it.  How will a library
>> become widespread unless something uses it?
>
> That something will not be the git core itself.  Otherwise we will
> lose a stable reference implementation to catch its bugs.

Well, the whole question here is whether git-subtree can become part of
core if it is based on libgit2.  It boils down to what you mean by
"widespread," I guess.  Does "widespread" mean "available as a package
in major distributions," "installed by default in major distributions"
or something else?

                                 -Dave