From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:48:27 +0100 Message-ID: <200711252248.27904.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 25 22:48:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwPLN-0004je-3T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:48:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755428AbXKYVsb (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:48:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752905AbXKYVsa (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:48:30 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:50594 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754773AbXKYVsa (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:48:30 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so480088nfb for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:48:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=LgCAcZ8Kzaucg/lwwABR6LGIPHd3K2rj3W7Ugwa87v8=; b=d4YglYSws8P6rM6WX+h/u5zTpM/hYecdG7v46UJBBEoKcVbfixxiItLOCWnk7itkE11qRY0RyKeDzHPXbEXQ4n5Zw+/PAZhSuYpR5Cl8uvyPKhsGCXLbagn6tseZ4Gxv3pAw1FqMgcc41HMP5BMZ66BTYsMvwO1h/8J96QUUcvk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=O5agNV/iU6jfmnpS4xvfaCiN4TQIYhMZs7eNiAIguzILtp4Yxqt4z87w1LOgL6cVEJutWoawtfug6fVE4QtEHZBD7TLQpF/eYZl8SZ10De3J7Et97V7cZBFyFDYaGzpsn26nky4wpTWi4WJ5dSkvE+5J9WA4q1bUy7goe1m1maM= Received: by 10.86.100.7 with SMTP id x7mr1948564fgb.1196027308003; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.11? ( [83.8.223.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm1357418fga.2007.11.25.13.48.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:48:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? Yes, I know, I know. "Worse is better". It is better to release early and get feedback what is really needed, as opposed to what do you think is needed. I think git is a wonderful example of "evolved" software, evolving practically from the very beginnings. -- Jakub Narebski Poland