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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 26, 2007, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711262124411.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0711261417580.9605@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Get rid of plumbing at the command line level.
> 
> We can't get rid of plumbing.  It is part of Git probably forever and is 
> really really convenient for scripting in any language you want.

I agree, but that's not even the complete truth. Git would be not even half as useful as it is without its scriptability.

So it is not only convenience, but very much a reason that git development is so fast. That, and that more people than elsewhere let code talk. Which is also much easier when you have a scriptable system.

Ciao, Dscho

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