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

From: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:46:00 +0000

Jakub Narebski 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?

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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