Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)

On 22/08/07, David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

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If the scripting engine of choice for cobbling together
prototypes remains the Unix toolchain outside of git proper, then
Windows users will _always_ remain second class citizens since
they will get to work with and on new porcelain much later than
the rest of the world: namely when somebody bothers porting his
new favorite tool for them to C.

Right.

And not making the scripts builtins helps Windows users how,
exactly?

Red herring.  The proposal was not to do nothing, but rather give git
a dedicated scripting language internal to it.

That is a really neat idea.

Two suggestions of
mine with different advantages were git-busybox and Lua.  A third one
was once proposed by Linus with some code example: starting a
scripting language from scratch.

Do you have a link to the proposal?

So obviously, the need for something
like that is recognized, and not having to start from zero for that
might be an advantage if a good, workable language can be found.

It would also aid the Windows porting effort by having a single,
builtin scripting engine that does not have differing behaviours on
different platforms.

One thing that will need sorting is the binding of the C
plumbing/builtin command API to the scripting language, but this
shouldn't be that difficult to do.

- Reece