Re: [dev] [suckless] Migration to git

From: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:08:56 +0100

> The git source tree is more than four hundred percent bigger than the

are you comparing the size of a project in python with the size of a project
written in C?. The logical relation should be 2 times the size of hg, and
then you could say that they have a similar size.

> mercurial source tree. git ships more than 160 *man pages*. It is the

It is due to git keeps the api in small programs than you could use in your
scripts. These small programs are 100% Unix philosophy (do only one thing and
do it fine, write an output that can be used as input for other, ...). Work
with these low-level progams (plumbling in git vocabulary) is hard, and it
is the reason git have a 'user friendly' (porcelain in git vocabulary)
programs, which are pretty similar to these you can find in mercurial. If
you don't need an advanced use of git then you will read only the pages of
porcelain programs, whose number is similar to the programs in mercurial.

Maybe you like more have a library and have to link all the others programs
with it, and duplicate the work in all the binaries where the library is
linked, instead of using small programs.
Received on Mon Nov 26 2012 - 17:08:56 CET