Are C++ contributions welcome?

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?.

Thanks a lot.

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, jose maria gomez vergara wrote:

You probably mean

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/58929

but I cannot help but wonder why anything should have changed since then.

Of course, you can try to contribute something in C++, but that will probably only trigger someone rewriting your stuff in (portable) C and take all your credit.

Heck, I might do it myself ;-)

Ciao, Dscho

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

if you have UI/Win32 experience, a good friendly UI for newcomers to GIT is something we are lacking. Johannes got started with git-cheetah a while ago, and there is a similar project called TortoiseHg, either might be a good starting point.

As Jakub noted, C++ is a reasonably good fit for UIs, and we are lacking those. We have a fantastic team of people doing C work on the core of git, and noone on GUIs. So I'd say yes, C++/UI help is something we need 'round here :-)

cheers,

m

Good that is a really good news because I really like doing front-ends and GUI applications. I will take care of this.

On Friday 20 June 2008 17:59:09 Martin Langhoff wrote:

Before starting, do you have any preference for Qt or Gtk in Git. I feel quite confortable with both of them.

Qt . C++ GPL Gtk+. C - LGPL

The quality is good for both of them

On Friday 20 June 2008 18:11:01 Jose María Gómez Vergara wrote:

Jose María Gómez Vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org> writes:

Please take a look at <URL:http://developer.imendio.com/projects/giggle>. It might be worthwhile not to start from scratch here.

look nice

On Friday 20 June 2008 18:29:09 David Kastrup wrote:

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:20 +0200, Jose María Gómez Vergara wrote:

If you think about using one of those 2 you might also want to take a look at qgit - http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgit/ (qt) and giggle - http://developer.imendio.com/projects/giggle/ (gtk)

Not sure if those toolkits can for used to produce a TortoiseGit.

best regards, Ray

Martin Langhoff wrote:

My assessment of git-cola (formerly ugit) makes me wonder if that statement is still true. It doesn't have explorer integration, and the install is tedious on windows. But since it uses Qt4 it's purty enough for Windows users and it uses porcelain commands so it doesn't require plumbing knowledge.

The Windows users that I've shown git cola are universally excited to try it. And my dogfood'ing on Linux has been going well.

FWIW, Barry Roberts

Jose Maria Gomez Vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org> writes:

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.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:23 PM, jose maria gomez vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org> wrote:

Any programmer can learn a new language as long as they have enough programming skills; it's not the language you are proficient in, it is the programming you are proficient in. If you would like to contribute to git, consider polishing up your C, really it is not all that hard ;). The main thing you will probably stumble into is the lack of std::string, but there are plenty examples in the git codebase to learn how git handles string.

To be honest, I like a lot projects made in C. I have been working with Qt and with Gtk and I must say that it is easy for me to understand Gtk that is in C than Qt that is in C++. Something I feel like if C++ design do unnecessary abstration. The thing is that due to my job, I am more familiar with C++ since the project in which I work at my job is a really big monster that seems to be easier to manage using an a litter high level language as C++ instead C.

I would like to learn more C, but sometime I think I should focus in one language and learn as much as possible about it.

Sometime ago I had to decide between C and C++. Looking around my city, it was easy to find a good job working for a big mega-application that for a small system application. It doesn't mean I like more working in high-level but C++ seems to have the best of both worlds.

I will try to do things in C... 

Btw, more than strings I miss STL containers and algorithmits, but, if I want to join to contribute I know I must adapt myself to the rules. So, i will try to do thing in C.

Thanks

On Friday 20 June 2008 17:30:31 Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

Jose María Gómez Vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org> writes:

This is sort of like discussing the most suitable alphabet for writing poetry.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:29 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

And if you don't mind Python, Qt, LGPL...

http://cola.tuxfamily.org/ http://gitorious.org/projects/git-cola/

enjoy,

--
 David