From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BuGit Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:08:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h9hrm62w.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454432944 25350 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2016 17:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:09:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 18:08:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeRa-0003Ol-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:08:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeRZ-0004b4-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeRR-0004Rl-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:08:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeRM-0001vW-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeRM-0001vQ-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeRL-00030p-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from modemcable022.171-203-24.mc.videotron.ca ([24.203.171.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by modemcable022.171-203-24.mc.videotron.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:08:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: modemcable022.171-203-24.mc.videotron.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g/1ozoueQklLw4RdGIdehXsjL6Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199175 Archived-At: >> For those curious about what I've been upto lately, one of the things >> I've been working on is a new distributed issue tracking system which >> I call BuGit: >> https://gitlab.com/monnier/bugit >> It's still primitive (only the command-line UI and the email >> notification system are more or less complete: the web UI is still >> read-only, and there is no email UI at all). > Nice! ...but if I may, why writing it all in bash? [ Actually it works in dash as well. AFAIK it's almost 99% POSIX shell code (IIRC the only extension used is to use "type " to figure out if is a valid function/command). ] The real reason is rather silly: I'd been thinking about how to represent the database in such a way that all the merging is done "for free" by the underlying VCS, and when it finally occurred to me, I was all excited at how simple it was and started to write an email to a friend outlining how it worked, and since describing it in text was cumbersome, I started to write it in pseudo-code which quickly turned into executable sh code. The next planned feature (email UI) will not be written in sh, and I expect that after that, all the new code will be in Python. Stefan