From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>, "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Josef Wolf" <jw@raven.inka.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Git.pm: discourage casual use
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:45:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101202194536.GB4806@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7veia0q8fx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> So how about something like this patch, to start?
>
> Ok. We may probably want to reduce the repetition of "easy", though.
Yes.
---
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 69e92aa..4700dd7 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ require Exporter;
This module provides an easy way to interact with the Git version control
system for Git's internal perl scripts.
-The modules have an easy and well-tested way to call arbitrary Git
-commands; in the future, the interface will also provide specialized methods
-for doing easily operations which are not totally trivial to do over
+The modules include a robust way to call arbitrary Git commands;
+in the future, the interface will also provide specialized methods
+to simplify operations which are not totally trivial to do over
the generic command interface.
-Note: this module should not be used by code outside the Git package itself,
+The module should not be used by code outside the Git package itself,
since the API is not stable yet.
While some commands can be executed outside of any context (e.g. 'version'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 11:40 Problems using perl's Git.pm module Josef Wolf
2010-12-02 13:23 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-12-02 16:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-02 17:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-12-02 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-02 18:10 ` demerphq
2010-12-02 18:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-02 18:41 ` demerphq
2010-12-02 19:05 ` [RFC/PATCH] Git.pm: discourage casual use Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-02 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-02 19:45 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-03 8:38 ` Problems using perl's Git.pm module Josef Wolf
2010-12-03 9:02 ` demerphq
2010-12-02 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-02 18:32 ` demerphq
2010-12-03 8:27 ` Josef Wolf
2010-12-03 9:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-02 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-03 8:14 ` Josef Wolf
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