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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:27:54 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Get rid of plumbing at the command line level.
> 
> We can't get rid of plumbing.  It is part of Git probably forever and is 
> really really convenient for scripting in any language you want.

I agree, but that's not even the complete truth.  Git would be not even 
half as useful as it is without its scriptability.

So it is not only convenience, but very much a reason that git development 
is so fast.  That, and that more people than elsewhere let code talk.  
Which is also much easier when you have a scriptable system.

Ciao,
Dscho