From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20071127015942.GM14735@spearce.org> References: <200711252248.27904.jnareb@gmail.com> <20071127014804.GJ14735@spearce.org> <7vd4twe9mn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 27 03:00:15 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 1Iwpk5-0000se-K4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:00:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753570AbXK0B7r (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753344AbXK0B7r (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:47 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:43956 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753317AbXK0B7q (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:46 -0500 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IwpjZ-0004Lm-FM; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:33 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C63A120FBAE; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:42 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vd4twe9mn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > > > All of the above is written with 20/20 hindsight and all that. > > > > Looking back (and knowing myself well) I think the only item I > > would have gotten right if I had written Git from scratch is the > > first one above (the tree entry ordering). I probably would have > > done something equally "as bad" as what we have today for all of > > the others... > > ... not to mention countless others you would get wrong that you did not > list in the above, as the current git got them right ;-) Indeed. Which is why nobody is looking to rewrite Git from scratch. Except myself and a few other nuts who want a pure Java implementation for Eclipse plugins. :-) -- Shawn.