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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 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.

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.


Nicolas