From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:59:42 GMT
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
Message-ID: <20071127015942.GM14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4twe9mn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "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.