On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 08:01 +0100, Marco Costalba wrote:

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> Please which are, in your opinion, the possible tools that could use a
> non-reentrant, blocking libgit? In case tool is already existent
> please write the name, in case it's a 'would be' one give a brief
> description.

Another idea that I just remembered about: two years ago there was a SoC
project to make nautilus (the file manager from gnome) able to version
directories. It was using SVN (and failed, but it's another story).

While nautilus is heavily multi-threaded, it's a "single-instance app",
so there is at most only one instance of nautilus ever running. Under
the hypothesis of a "versioned directories" support using libgit (that
would be easier to do and support since it doesn't need to set up a
server), it's quite obvious that a non-reentrant git would not be
enough: you are likely to have more than one versioned directories on
screen at the same time! OTOH, blocking doesn't look like an issue since
gnomevfs already deals with quite a number of blocking synchronous libs
and exposes an async API on top of those (similar to what QT Threading
does, I guess).

BTW, if some Gnome people are reading, if libgit comes into life, such a
project is something I'd like to see for real ;-)

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