On Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:37 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:45 PM Emily Shaffer [off-list ref] wrote:

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As I mentioned in standup this week[1], my colleagues and I at Google
have become very interested in converting parts of Git into libraries
usable by external programs. In other words, for some modules which
already have clear boundaries inside of Git - like config.[ch],
strbuf.[ch], etc. - we want to remove some implicit dependencies, like
references to globals, and make explicit other dependencies, like
references to other modules within Git. Eventually, we'd like both for
an external program to use Git libraries within its own process, and
for Git to be given an alternative implementation of a library it uses
internally (like a plugin at runtime).

This is obviously the way it should have been done from the beginning, but
unfortunately at this point the Git project has too much inertia and too many vested
interests from multi-billion dollar corporations to change.

I wonder if a single person who isn't paid to work on Git commented on this thread.

Raises hand.