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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:59:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On 3/16/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > *The most important thing for a libgit to be used by qgit is reentrancy*
> > 
> 
> Another crtitical feature is that this call to git-rev-list-like
> function MUST be non-blocking.

I'm not sure I agree.

The non-blockingness can be (and probably should be) handled at a higher 
level with your own threading facility of choice.  Making GIT 
restartable has the potential for making the core code much too complex.


Nicolas