Re: libgit2 status

From: dag@cray.com <dag@cray.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2012, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <nngr4qqhp7x.fsf@transit.us.cray.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120827214027.GA511@vidovic>

Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr> writes:

> Do you expect one big merge of a very stable libgit2 at some point?

I don't think there's any need to merge libgit2 into the git project source. As a library, it should be perfectly usable as a project of its own, just like libcurl and libz.

> Otherwise, what about going with this optionnal "LDFLAGS += -libgit2"
> ASAP with good disclaimer that it's only intended for development and
> testing purpose? Then, git-core could slowly rely on functions of
> libgit2, one after the other.

This makes a lot of sense to me.

                            -David