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

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 18:11:43 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If you would write git from scratch now, from the beginning, without
>>> concerns for backwards compatibility, what would you change, or what
>>> would you want to have changed?
>>
>> Get rid of plumbing at the command line level.  It is confusing to
>
> No, please. It's extremely useful. It should be a bit more hidden,  
> but it's
> a big advantage of git that the plumbing is available.
>
>> users, and command line arguments, exec calls and I/O streams are not
>> efficient and reasonably typed mechanisms for the kind of operations
>> done in plumbing.  Instead using a good extensible portable scripting
>> language (I consider Lua quite suitable in that regard, but it is
>> conceivable that something with a native list type supporting easy
>> sorts, merges and selections could be more efficient) and  
>> implementing
>> plumbing in that or in C would have been preferable for creating the
>> porcelain.
>
> POSIX shell is really the best extensible portable scripting language
> available for the job. Because the whipuptitude is the most important
> property and shell is simply best at one-liners. And since you use it
> for regular work (running editor, compiler, git porcelain), it is the
> obvious choice for whiping up a short function.