Re: Are C++ contributions welcome?

Jose Maria Gomez Vergara [off-list ref] writes:

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?.

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.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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