Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2007, 01:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4twe9mn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071127014804.GJ14735@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> 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 ;-)

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