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

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 11/25/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I would sit down and carefully design the command syntax. git's
biggest criticism is that it is hard to use and this is mainly caused
by the seemingly very complex commands. Much of this complexity could
be hidden from the user.

I'd also integrated a patch management system like stgit. I'm using
stgit commands for 90% of my tasks and it has a different syntax than
git (its trying to fix some of the problems).

Most current git users are knowledgeable programmers and could handle
a rework of the git command syntax. The sooner the syntax is reworked
the better in my opinion. The current syntax grew organically as we
learned what git needed. Now's the time to use this knowledge and
design an optimal command structure.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com