On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Wink,

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Wink Saville wrote:

quoted

Add bdl-lib.sh which provides functions to assit in debugging git
shell scripts and tests.

Interesting idea. It is Bash-only, though... (and it is not a secret that
I want to discourage using Unix shell scripts in Git's production code,
they are a decent way to prototype things, but they fall short of being
robust and portable in practice, and don't get me started on speed
issues).

So rather than spending time on making it easier to debug shell scripts, I
would love to see us going into the direction of a consistent C source
code. I still believe that we can get there, and that the benefits are
worth the (huge) effort.

Ciao,
Johannes

I totally agree the code base should use primarily one language!

But that's not the case now and "bdl" gave me insight into the workings
of rebase--interactive and I found little guidance on how to debug
or learn the code base. So I thought I'd see if there was interest
in what I'd done.

If I were to make it non-bash specific would there be any interest?

-- Wink