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Chris Hessert
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Retired US Army musician and techno geek. Plays with antique toy trains.
Replying to Avatar Julia Evans

nostr:npub1wq6kzst3l7j67fyfk7j2jl6nyzgyg7qdffcgsll43euwccdw79es88ju6u nothing I have read by him has made me think he would be an enjoyable person to talk to tbh

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Chris Hessert 1y ago

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That’s an odd response, but you’re certainly entitled to your opinion. I guess you’ll have figure out the history and purposes of Git without the original author’s input? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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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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Chris Hessert 1y ago

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You should interview Linus Torvalds about this. I’m certain he knows a thing or two about the origins of Git. 😉

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