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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>,
	 Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>,
	 msysGit <msysgit@googlegroups.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Should we discuss Windows-related changes on git@vger.kernel.org?
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:35:20 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807120033490.8950@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6wjcgm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


Hi,

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Another example that has already happened was our move away from direct 
> use of fork/exec but abstracting it out to run_command() layer.  This 
> would not have settled in a shape usable by both Windows and POSIX if 
> people from both camps did not participate in the design and review.

I think that is a perfect example, since Hannes worked on it in mingw.git.  
AFAIR a few comments came through msysGit, and were incorporated.  When 
everything was good for a first go at git@vger, it was sent, and the 
interface finalized.

And I agree that it is a pretty beautiful interface.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11  8:07 Should we discuss Windows-related changes on git@vger.kernel.org? Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-11 11:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 15:51   ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-11 15:57     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 16:24       ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-11 18:36         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 19:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-11 19:40             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 21:10               ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-11 21:38                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 23:06                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-11 23:37                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-12  8:07                   ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-11 22:14               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-11 23:35                 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-11 23:40                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-11 23:47                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 23:58                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-12  0:06                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-12  1:07                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-12  7:38                         ` Steffen Prohaska

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