From: <dag@cray.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, <greened@obbligato.org>,
<git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libgit2 status
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:21:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nng4nnohvyk.fsf@transit.us.cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v6284qfw8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:44:07 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it. How will a library
>> become widespread unless something uses it?
>
> That something will not be the git core itself. Otherwise we will
> lose a stable reference implementation to catch its bugs.
Well, the whole question here is whether git-subtree can become part of
core if it is based on libgit2. It boils down to what you mean by
"widespread," I guess. Does "widespread" mean "available as a package
in major distributions," "installed by default in major distributions"
or something else?
-Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-27 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 14:02 libgit2 status greened
2012-08-25 9:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-08-25 20:46 ` Vicent Marti
2012-08-25 21:46 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-08-25 22:32 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-26 7:26 ` Elia Pinto
2012-08-26 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-26 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-27 16:13 ` dag
2012-08-27 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-27 18:49 ` dag
2012-08-27 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-27 21:21 ` dag [this message]
2012-08-27 21:40 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-08-28 17:59 ` dag
2012-08-28 18:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-19 0:42 ` Thiago Farina
2012-10-19 3:54 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-19 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-19 22:11 ` dag
2012-10-19 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-20 1:21 ` Thiago Farina
2012-10-20 7:58 ` Andreas Ericsson
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