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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> During the GitTogether we were kicking around the idea of a ground-up
> implementation of a Git library.  This may be easier than trying
> to grind down git.git into a library, as we aren't tied to any
> of the current global state baggage or the current die() based
> error handling.
> 
> I've started an _extremely_ rough draft.  The code compiles into a
> libgit.a but it doesn't even implement what it describes in the API,
> let alone a working Git implementation.  Really what I'm trying to
> incite here is some discussion on what the API looks like.

Just a random question: is there a reason why you have put all the .h in 
a separate includes/ directory instead of relying on the install target 
to put the include files at the right place ?

To me it makes it much harder to hack on the files as one is always 
required to switch between both directories...