From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:54:08 -0800 Message-ID: <7vd4twe9mn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200711252248.27904.jnareb@gmail.com> <20071127014804.GJ14735@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 27 02:54:34 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 1Iwpej-0007mz-GA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:54:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753217AbXK0ByP (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753390AbXK0ByP (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:15 -0500 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:52826 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752193AbXK0ByO (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:14 -0500 Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7AA2F0; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F7C9A2CD; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20071127014804.GJ14735@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:48:04 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "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 ;-)