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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