From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Barr Subject: Re: [linux.conf.au] VCS Interoperability Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:47:08 +1100 Message-ID: References: <3BC64515-C4C0-4D32-97B0-8FFD14BB903C@silverinsanity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Brian Gernhardt , david@lang.hm, Ramkumar Ramachandra , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Jonathan Nieder , Dmitry Ivankov To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 27 00:47:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RqZ2S-00051U-2p for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:47:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752645Ab2AZXr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:47:26 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:39312 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323Ab2AZXrJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:47:09 -0500 Received: by ghrr11 with SMTP id r11so549891ghr.19 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:47:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:x-system-of-record:content-type; bh=I7JVgNiGOaO24MST213KfasFEw1keM8TtNVsd7163Mg=; b=FXHWilAhx5ATZ/eKwAwNcT45oo2tVe5T8NGyrSP1dYFVyg2VYh/eBhT2ydBckiJyVc 5vvf+f/hyxd2IILWA5NVJ0wKnXllr4MVH5wnNgXeCxS8vA382ZXvRxjbd/qZoLS4FZ6m tuI+6B9cwYOAmFjMiIojQtqW9rqZ+2rNG9yyw= Received: by 10.236.173.132 with SMTP id v4mr6620026yhl.78.1327621628321; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.173.132 with SMTP id v4mr6620008yhl.78.1327621628225; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.144.22 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:47:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>> 3. What are your thoughts on lib'ifying Git so that others can call >>>> into it using an API? >>> >>> This is something that everyone agrees would be a good thing. There have been many people who have started projects to do so, but they have all stalled. >> >> I believe libgit2 is still under active development. >> >> http://libgit2.github.com >> > > Yes, GitHub alone actually has 2 full time employees and 1 contractor > who are entirely dedicated to the project. It also ships with the > GitHub for Mac product, so it's used in production by tens of > thousands every day. If any of you want to get involved, you can check > out the mailing list (libgit2@librelist.org) or (probably more > usefully) the GitHub project page: > > https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2 > > Open tickets, contribute code, review PRs, etc. I'm thinking libgit2 is where git features that have stablised are formalised. On the other hand, git-core is where features are incubated. I would like to see fast-import ported to libgit2 when it stabilises ;) After giving my talk, I feel compelled to reroll the historic vcs-svn series. I'm pushing as I go to my GitHub account: https://github.com/barrbrain/git/commits/svn-fe-reroll -- David Barr