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On 01.08.2019 22:26, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> All true.  Perhaps we need a separate tutorial for scripters to
> teach them how to properly combine the plumbing commands?

@Phillip thanks for your effort!

However, I must admit that for us, this cure is worse then the problem.

We're not exactly scripting, rather we're assisting users to make
their work with git more convenient/efficient. If we replace all the
familiar commands with exotic combinations of 2-3 chained plumbing,
this will definitely leave most users completely clueless about what
our UI is doing (we have a window that shows all executed commands).

On top of that, I think that my quick analysis only uncovered like
1/3 of all the new edge cases (compared to using high-level commands)
and the solutions already look quite scary to me. Taking the other 2/3
into account, it really feels that this would be a path of lots of pain
and many bugfixes.