Start pushing code publicly about js-git

[creationix]

Right now, it's mostly discussion in irc (#js-git on freenode) and code being pushed to various projects at https://github.com/chrisdickinson/. I'll start pushing a demo app to this repo soon. We've decided to have many small modules and this repo will be docs and examples for how to use them together. I'll probably host a pre-built single-js file somewhere that can be dropped into a website when done. (if that makes sense).

Also I've posted several code snippets to gists and published them via my twitter account and the irc channel.

[mstade]

Are these smaller separate modules considered the plumbing and if so, will this project provide porcelain? Would it perhaps make sense to move longer running API discussions and the like to issues here in GitHub instead of IRC, to increase visibility?

[creationix]

So what happened was Chris already implemented half of the low-level plumbing before I had a chance to even start working on js-git. So I've been spending the last few days working out how to best reuse his code and not duplicate efforts.

I think much of the porcelain will also be individual repos. There is a lot of complexity mapping between how git works internally and the interface we're all familiar with. Git is, after all, just a content-addressable key / value store.

Since IRC isn't accessible to everyone and time zones can be a problem, I'm fine with more discussions being here on github.

[mstade]

+1 for discussion on github!

It probably makes sense to make the porcelain be individual repos as well, if nothing else for sanity's sake. I'm really psyched about this project; there are several projects where I've wanted to use git from javascript. (I found it after the campaign ended so couldn't contribute, I hope to be able to contribue time and effort instead!)

[seriema]

As a KS backer I feel a bit ... confused. I was expecting one library in one Github repo, kinda like jQuery. I was expecting code to migrate from any other project into this project.

Do you mean this JS-Git repo is going to be a documentation and sample project for chrisdickinson's work?

[creationix]

No js-git will still be a new js library. Chris is backing with code
instead of money to save me time and help the project get farther. I'm
writing code as well.

Also, I'm not blindly pulling in all his code. Js-git will be very much my
style and coding standards. People backed me because they believed I could
make this project.

It shouldn't matter if I build a single monolithic repo from scratch or
reuse code already written and use a more modular approach. The end goal
is the same.
On May 1, 2013 7:15 AM, "John-Philip Johansson" [email protected]
wrote:

As a KS backer I feel a bit ... confused. I was expecting one library in
one Github repo, kinda like jQuery. I was expecting code to migrate from
any other project into this project.

Do you mean this JS-Git repo is going to be a documentation and sample
project for chrisdickinson's work?

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[davidmarkclements]

+1 for modular though, there will be more mileage from a modular approach than a monolithic approach

[mihailik]

Separate modules or not, people are eager to see some code, please!

[mstade]

If the modules are reasonably high level (i.e. on the level of git porcelain) it should be real easy to build a monolithic wrapper that pulls them in and provides a different style of interface.

Personally, I think the modular approach is sound. For instance, I wrote a dependency management system that utilized git, and it basically only ever cloned/switched branches and inspected tags/commits. No need to pull in more functionality than that.

I also think there's value in a general purpose library, kind of in the style of shelljs, but it should be straight forward to provide this as a sort of wrapper around what these multiple projects.

[creationix]

@mihailik there is a ton of code at https://github.com/chrisdickinson/. He's been working on this for a long while. All the code I have is pushed here already. Remember I did just start working on this last Friday. Also I'm trying to document the highlights of the irc conversations in github issues here.

[seriema]

@creationix Sounds good. It just sounded like you were turning JS-Git into a repo of examples and documentation for other libraries. Glad to hear you're keeping an eye on quality. Can't wait to see more commits pushed!

[mstade]

Cool, sounds like all questions in this thread have been answered.