From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 15:39:35 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4plzi508.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <1dbc01c79432$b4400a80$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <464534EE.30904@xs4all.nl> <4656A304.AF39A0B6@eudaptics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 27 00:39:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hs4vH-0006Jd-Qu for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 00:39:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750740AbXEZWji (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 18:39:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750743AbXEZWji (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 18:39:38 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao106.cox.net ([68.230.241.40]:34874 "EHLO fed1rmmtao106.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbXEZWjh (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 18:39:37 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070526223937.JMUJ6556.fed1rmmtao106.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Sat, 26 May 2007 18:39:37 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 3yfc1X0071kojtg0000000; Sat, 26 May 2007 18:39:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sat, 26 May 2007 23:26:48 +0100 (BST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: >> In this, part of the pain is that Git tries to guess the version number >> by itself in a complicated way. > > Yes, I never understood that myself why it has to be so complicated. But > then, it did not make _my_ life hard, so I did not care. "echo "MyVersionNumber" >version && make"? > OTOH, it _is_ a nice thing to protohype the new commands as shell or perl > scripts. When they stabilize enough, convert them to builtins. Protohype is a nice word. Throw out a half-working stuff and advertise it as the best thing since sliced bread even before it starts to being useful ;-) > There are exactly 4 perl scripts left that I regularly use: > > add--interactive, cvsimport, remote and svn. > > I somehow have the feeling that it is not worth the effort to convert > cvsimport and svn. With add--interactive, I think it's better to leave it > as is before Junio goes on another "what have I done? why did I have to > add _this_?" spree. I do not follow you here. > But remote will soon be the center of my crosshairs. I am afraid that it might be a bit premature. I've been hoping that we can make git-clone a thin wrapper around init/remote/fetch/checkout. For one thing, we would want to split the separate-remotes layout and bareness to create "mirror" (I called it "pure" previously, but this is really a mirror) layout for git-clone, among other things, and that kind of enhancements would need to be done inside git-remote.