From: john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)
Subject: Policy on global variables
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:21:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140116212152.GH7608@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9oU=4JZA9AX-f5BfKd_MeMH-k5_M+0fegBkhs4eiTMWhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:38:02PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I had a look at porting to libgit2 about a year ago and it mostly isn't
> > too bad. IIRC the only problematic area is the graph output which we
> > currently get from libgit.a but would have to do ourselves if we switch
> > to libgit2.
>
> Are there any downsides of doing this? I know we've put a lot of work
> into cozying up with internal git utility functions and their build
> system. Would we have to reimplement a lot of this? Would it be worth
> it? Are there general benefits of using libgit2 over what we have now?
> Are there general downsides?
Given the CGit and Git are both GPLv2, we could always just take
strbuf.[ch] and the argv-array bits from git.git and copy them into
CGit. Likewise the test suite could switch to using Sharness with very
little effort.
So I don't think the recent changes towards using more bits of Git
actually have too much impact here.
> More importantly, is this something you would be willing to do, if we
> decided it was the best direction?
I won't have time to do this in the near future.
The first step in this direction may actually be useful even if we stick
with embedding libgit.a. Re-writing the commit graph drawing ourselves
could allow prettier output than the ASCII we inherit from Git.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 0:06 Jason
2014-01-16 0:20 ` Jason
2014-01-16 0:59 ` normalperson
2014-01-16 1:00 ` Jason
2014-01-16 8:06 ` hjemli
2014-01-16 10:47 ` normalperson
2014-01-16 11:31 ` Jason
2014-01-16 13:08 ` john
2014-01-16 18:38 ` Jason
2014-01-16 21:21 ` john [this message]
2014-01-16 21:26 ` Jason
2014-01-16 21:34 ` john
2014-01-16 21:36 ` Jason
2014-01-16 22:20 ` john
2014-01-16 23:42 ` Jason
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