Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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- Nov 27, 2007, 01:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes: > > > All of the above is written with 20/20 hindsight and all that. > > > > Looking back (and knowing myself well) I think the only item I > > would have gotten right if I had written Git from scratch is the > > first one above (the tree entry ordering). I probably would have > > done something equally "as bad" as what we have today for all of > > the others... > > ... not to mention countless others you would get wrong that you did not > list in the above, as the current git got them right ;-)
Indeed.
Which is why nobody is looking to rewrite Git from scratch.
Except myself and a few other nuts who want a pure Java implementation for Eclipse plugins. :-)
-- Shawn.