From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Govind Salinas" Subject: Re: thread-safe libgit.a as a GSoC project, was Re: [SoC RFC] libsvn-fs-git: A git backend for the subversion filesystem Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:34:38 -0500 Message-ID: <5d46db230803221834n7c230447r2afffdaae79e4068@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e8340490803182108y40a9aec2q8e5bcb78b907bbb5@mail.gmail.com> <3e8340490803212202r6dbaa9eel544ba2b4b8e8d0c7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Bryan Donlan" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Sam Vilain" , "Shawn O. Pearce" , "Harvey Harrison" , "Julian Phillips" , "Jakub Narebski" To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 23 02:35:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdF7T-0004Zz-Qa for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:35:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754992AbYCWBek (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:34:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755187AbYCWBek (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:34:40 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]:62918 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754357AbYCWBej (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:34:39 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so2350049wxd.4 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.106.4 with SMTP id i4mr2412249ybm.189.1206236078468; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.156.18 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > Also, after looking at libgit in a bit more detail, I think it might be > > necessary to not use it after all, as subversion requires support for > > multiple open repositories, as well as thread safety (at least when > > accessing different open repo from different threads). Perhaps a > > thread-safe git library would be a nice SoC project as well? > > As I said on IRC yesterday, I think that such a libgit.a would be nice, > _but_ > > - a lot of git programs expect to be one-shot, and libgit.a shows that, > > - not many people will help you with your effort, but just ignore it and > actively introduce things that do not help libification (at least that's > my experience), > > - unless you have a proper need for such a library, I do not think there > is enough motivation to actually get it to completion. > I would use it for my pyrite work, although it will be some time before I could contribute to such an effort. I expect it would be useful for anyone who wants to make a language binding that uses native git underneath. Just so you know *someone* will use it. Thanks, Govind.