From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial (for DragonflyBSD) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:48:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4907506C.8090609@op5.se> References: <200810272149.13542.arne_bab@web.de> <20081027210716.GS2273@genesis.frugalware.org> <200810272230.51683.arne_bab@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Miklos Vajna , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, mercurial@selenic.com, SLONIK.AZ@gmail.com To: Arne Babenhauserheide X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 28 18:50:17 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kushl-0002ix-Em for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:50:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754331AbYJ1Rsh (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:48:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752504AbYJ1Rsg (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:48:36 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:32955 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754331AbYJ1Rsg (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:48:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697C324B001C; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:42:55 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wk9sWD2DGwzY; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:42:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (unknown [172.27.78.10]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D501324B001B; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:42:51 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <200810272230.51683.arne_bab@web.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Montag 27 Oktober 2008 22:07:16 schrieb Miklos Vajna: >> IIRC the main reason git aliases can't overwrite git commands is because >> that would break scripts relying on the output of existing git commands. >> Given that I install such an extension, won't my script break? > > Since that "script" will likely be an extension which will use the core > function instead of the UI command, it won't break. > > Stuff which does command line parsing can naturally break when I change the > output. But it can also directly use the advanced features. > But then you're back with a single language, taking valuable freedom away from the addon author. How many perl gurus have skipped writing stuff for hg because it's a "python-or-bust" thing? And please don't give me that rubbish of "but Python is obviously better than C". Which one's true (if any) depends only on how you define "better". -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231