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

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 20:34:25 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
>> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>> >> Get rid of plumbing at the command line level.
>> >
>> > We can't get rid of plumbing.
>> 
>> What about "at the command line level" did you not understand?
>
> Which part of we neither can nor want did you not understant?
>
> The availability of plumbing is really big part of a reason why git is
> so good and has so many scripts and tool built on top of it.

Which is the reason I proposed making the plumbing available at a
scripting level, not at the command line level.

The actual trend we are getting nowadays is locking the porcelaine,
previously available as shell scripts, down into C code, _without_
making use of a reasonable plumbing layer suitable for any scripting at
all.

So the git community at the same time praises shell scripting and
simultanouesly replaces it without even using the available plumbing,
_and_ claims that _both_, exclusive and incompatible approaches, are the
perfect solution.  At the same time.  While fighting the shell
portability fight continuously, on Unix as well as Windows.

I may have a big mouth, but swallowing all of this at once is beyond me.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum