From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Shoemaker Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20070822150252.GA10531@pe.Belkin> References: <46CC3090.7080500@gmail.com> <86absjenc3.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <46CC3C17.8040901@op5.se> <864pirej6w.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070822144943.GA25527@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Kastrup , git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hommey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 22 17:03:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INrjY-0006Dx-6N for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:03:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762439AbXHVPCz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762110AbXHVPCz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:55 -0400 Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net ([68.230.240.8]:41937 "EHLO eastrmmtao102.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761598AbXHVPCy (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:54 -0400 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070822150253.SEDD19980.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:53 -0400 Received: from localhost ([68.0.253.29]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id f32s1X00d0epFYL0000000; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:53 -0400 Received: from chris by localhost with local (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1INrjQ-0002kC-Tl; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:02:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070822144943.GA25527@glandium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:49:43PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:29:43PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > The problem I see is that C sucks really really bad as a scripting > > language, and tying together plumbing functionality into porcelain is > > one of the most powerful, flexible and hack-friendly features of git. > > Deprecating scripts is making git more opaque. > (...) > > Having tools being implemented in C rather than shell won't remove the > tools for you to be able to write scripts and do your plumbing. It might > remove some examples for you to write your plumbing, though. Actually, the scripts are being moved into contrib/examples for this reason, so, they're still available. -chris