From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: Gitbox Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:41:41 -0700 Message-ID: <86vcyigcqy.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <1302721187.21900.4.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <1E5D7DCE-B3B3-4CC7-8F40-4ED48E76907D@gmail.com> <1302722214.22161.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Joshua Juran , Daniel Searles , git@vger.kernel.org, oleganza@gmail.com To: Drew Northup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 13 21:42:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QA5xF-00052J-LW for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:42:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932357Ab1DMTmQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:42:16 -0400 Received: from lax-gw06.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.106]:42779 "EHLO mail.mroute.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932159Ab1DMTmP (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:42:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF27C598; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:41:57 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E612C592; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:41:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7E0701BE0; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:41:41 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.5.2; tzolkin = 10 Ik; haab = 10 Pop In-Reply-To: <1302722214.22161.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> (Drew Northup's message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:16:54 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Drew" == Drew Northup writes: Drew> He also clearly stated that he's not calling git command-line tools... Drew> "Gitbox neither links (statically or dynamically) against Git nor uses Drew> custom interfaces to interact with it. Git binaries are provided for Drew> your convenience only." Huh? How do you get "not using git CLI" there? He's not using *custom* interfaces, but the *standard* interfaces are more than enough. He's made new porcelein, and using the plumbing directly. That's exactly why we have plumbing in git, right? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion