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

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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What is wrong with going from shell to C?  C _is_ portable.  Instead 
of relying on _yet_ another scripting language, introducing _yet_ 
another language that people have to learn to hack git, introducing 
_yet_ another place for bugs to hide, why not just admit that shell is 
nice for _prototyping_?

This is a narrow view of the programming world that I don't share.

Well, you have to admit that some things are really, really hard to do in 
shell.  Just from the top of my head: locking, data structures, 
portability, scalability, process control.  There are a lot more, I guess, 
but for the _core_ of Git I really prefer C.

I don't dispute that.

I'm more concerned about easy scripting of Git operations that can be 
shared across different environments.

I do not want to shove C down the throat of every Git user.  You can use 
_whatever_ scripting language you like.

Sure.  I was thinking that a common scripting language, shipped with Git 
itself that would work out of the box either on Linux or Windows, could 
benefit the whole Git user base, with a possible side effect of being 
able to also run the test suite everywhere.  If that has no sufficient 
merits to other people and only remains a peep dream of mine then so be 
it.


Nicolas