Re: libgit2 status

From: dag@cray.com <dag@cray.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2012, 16:13 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> And the last one should really be a "longer term" item.  It is more
> important for its codebase to get mature and robust, and that can
> only happen by various projects and products (e.g. GitHub for Mac)
> using it to improve it.  I do not think "subtree" (or anything in
> contrib/ for that matter) is part of "the core stuff of git", and do
> not see a problem; such a move may help both subtree and libgit2.
>
> Over a much longer timeperiod, I wouldn't be surprised if some "core
> stuff" gets reimplemented on top of libgit2 and distributed as part
> of the git-core.

I am hoping to move git-subtree into core once it performs a little better and I've fixed a couple of bugs. Will basing it on libgit2 delay that process significantly? Six months delay is no problem. 2 years would be problematic.

I would be happy to be a guinea pig for libgit2 in order to improve it, but I don't want to significantly impact git-subtree's move to core. I'll have to figure out the right balance there given feedback.

                         -Dave