Charles Duffy wrote:
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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Shell scripts allow for a fragile system because they could include C
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snippets which they then compile and LD_PRELOAD.
Well, I do not expect people to misbehave. You do not compile a nasty
C-program from a shell script _by mistake_.
You also don't replace bzrlib functionality (in your terms, plumbing) in
a plugin by mistake.
Perhaps the cause for not having plugins in GIT (besides the fact that
it follows OSS + Unix guidelines) is that git is not libified, yet. It
is "scriptified", i.e. it has many helper programs, and has options for
pipelining that it is really easy to use in scripts (Cogito, pg, StGit),
but the libification effort is [only] ongoing.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git