From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:40:49 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <200711252248.27904.jnareb@gmail.com> <858x4l2apc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 26 22:41:26 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 1IwlhW-0002Q6-W0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:41:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754215AbXKZVkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:40:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754169AbXKZVkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:40:52 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58054 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754158AbXKZVkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:40:52 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2007 21:40:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 26 Nov 2007 22:40:50 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18kpZI4KYYkSYnMg2J8895a+ooApocIcQFGNCeVyk sgzcvDKXdSRJMa X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > I agree, but that's not even the complete truth. Git would be not > > even half as useful as it is without its scriptability. > > Sure, but this is missing the point. > > The issue at hand is about the fact that way too many Git commands are > to be found in the default command path. Diverging on whether or not > plumbing is useful is the wrong question. Ah, thanks. I use a spam filter here, so I did not get the complete context. Sorry, Dscho