Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID: <455CFE25.8040705@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20061116051240.GV7201@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis escreveu:

> (vi) Coding issues. This is probably very subjective, but a blocker for
> me. I have no issues about C here, but about the shell part of Git.
> Well, how to say it... It's just fundamentally incompatible with me. I

(on a tangent)

I concur, but probably in a different way.

some 10 years ago I vowed never to write perl code again, and some 5 years ago, I made the same pledge for shell scripts, because I spent inordinate amounts of time debugging them.

When I see the GIT shell scripts, my hands start to itch to make a nice object oriented Python wrapper for it.

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