Archive for May, 2008

NOTE: Not to be confused with a mercurial extension, named shelve.

Few days ago there was a lot links on the Internet to gitshelve, which implements persistent versioned storage of objects in the git. I’ve read it description and realized that there are few serious design flaws:

• Can store only strings
• Uses subprocess.PIPE for interconnection with git
• Uses bunch of C+Perl+Shell code in Python library instead of using another Python library ;-)