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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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nostr:npub1upkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xss4tcwy There's a lot of inconsistency. E.g. a lot of commands are 'git COMMAND VERB SUBJECT', like 'git remote add'. But git tag mysteriously uses flags for its verbs.

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nostr:npub1jdmpcwfd2pf4akk4wrudv48fnfuw5tc3dslsnvxhygd4q85mgcpq4xjwnq that's definitely true, how do you think it's related to those things being shell scripts originally? feels like you could have shell scripts with consistent flags