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this morning I'm thinking about how git's history of being built as a series of shell scripts has affected its user experience

my sense is

1) a lot of git was originally built as shell scripts

2) the user experience you can provide in a shell script is extremely limited

3) a lot of that now can't change for backwards compatibility reasons

does anyone have examples of this? will talk about how I think this affects merge conflicts in the next post

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a5d46e23... 1y ago

nostr:npub1upkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xss4tcwy part of it can be traced back to the time when collaboration was sending patches via email

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Julia Evans 1y ago

nostr:npub1erpua23c63um0lg2vt9j2kr0r9y02fz4j7nm3rylj70qhk83fqzsr46rah how do you think that affects git's user experience? i hear this a lot but it's hard for me to see how it affects the user experience today

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