From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:11:17 +0100 Message-ID: <455CFE25.8040705@xs4all.nl> References: <87k61yt1x2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <455A1137.8030301@shadowen.org> <87hcx1u934.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <87bqn9u43s.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vr6w5y7to.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061116051240.GV7201@pasky.or.cz> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carl Worth , git@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Nicolas Pitre Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) Original-Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git In-Reply-To: <20061116051240.GV7201@pasky.or.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkrKX-0006Lo-Ff for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:11:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424787AbWKQALh (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:11:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1424792AbWKQALh (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:11:37 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.26]:28435 "EHLO smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424787AbWKQALg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:11:36 -0500 Received: from [192.168.123.187] (muurbloem.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAH0BDRm091355; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:11:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hanwen@xs4all.nl) To: Petr Baudis Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis escreveu: > (vi) Coding issues. This is probably very subjective, but a blocker for > me. I have no issues about C here, but about the shell part of Git. > Well, how to say it... It's just fundamentally incompatible with me. I (on a tangent) I concur, but probably in a different way. some 10 years ago I vowed never to write perl code again, and some 5 years ago, I made the same pledge for shell scripts, because I spent inordinate amounts of time debugging them. When I see the GIT shell scripts, my hands start to itch to make a nice object oriented Python wrapper for it. --