Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
> 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?
Erm... (it's much harder to come with lists like these lately :-))
- "index", "cached" and "stage" are a definite source of confusion
- "git add" and "git rm" would be nicer as "git stage" and "git unstage"
(or something similar)
- libgit would have come first
- "git revert" should be called "git invert"
- "git revert" would (maybe) be "git reset"
- "git clone" wouldn't exist
- "git-gui" would be written in Qt (ducks)
- git-apply et al wouldn't be a disaster when the log message contains a
diff (change to git diff format?)
- empty directories in the repository (ducks again)
Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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