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=AWL,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: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building GIT in a different directory from the source directory Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:28:03 +0100 Message-ID: <457FC7A3.60206@op5.se> References: <7vbqm9xz8z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <457E979F.9060307@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Greylist: delayed 454 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:28:11 EST User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GuQPP-0005iP-BV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:28:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932635AbWLMJ2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:28:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932637AbWLMJ2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:28:12 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:41661 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932635AbWLMJ2L (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:28:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7787A6BCBF; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:28:09 +0100 (CET) To: Johannes Schindelin Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> I still don't understand the problem with autoconf; there are already >> plenty of baroque shell scripts in GIT. I hate writing m4 macros as >> well, but that's not a problem for GIT users (ie. people who compile >> GIT). > > That, together with the complexity of GIT_EXEC_DIR and path mangling > problems, makes me take every opportunity to suggest we should build in > most if not all of Git into the "git wrapper". > > Granted, without completion scripts, the "git-" convention was nice. > > Granted, with bash, Perl and even Python, you can rapidly prototype your > thoughts (even if I often miss the power of C there). > We could still allow that by simply not removing the "run this external program" code from the git wrapper even if we make all default commands built-ins. Pluggable git, just as it is today, and when something turns out to be useful, feature-complete and stable enough "someone" will hopefully hop in to make it a built-in. > But in the end, I'd say it makes lots of sense to have everything in one > executable. > Yup. Not least for portability issues. The lack of a native windows client has already made us lose at least one major "customer", and afaiu it was *only* the lack of a native windows client that caused this, so obviously it's a big issue for big cross-platform projects. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se