Re: is there a reason pre-commit.sample uses "git diff-index"?

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> plumbing command, so the likelihood of git-log calls in scripts out
> there is high.
>
> So maybe the community should strive to be more aggressive about
> changing the porcelain interface for the better.

To me, these two paragraphs are being incoherent.

If plumbing these days lag behind "log" Porcelain and tempt script
writers more towards "log", we should aggressively reject attempts
to change the "log" Porcelain behaviour to keep it stable, until a
suitable plumbing that scripters can rely on catches up.

Or course, aggressively improving plumbing would be a good solution
to that problem as well ;-)