That should make you more optimistic! They want to make sure that the data format is well-specified from the very beginning, ensuring that there can be a third-

That should make you more optimistic! They want to make sure that the data format is well-specified from the very beginning, ensuring that there can be a third-party ecosystem that doesn't have the issue Git has right now where the only real definitive definition of Git's data formats is Git, yet people expect libgit2, JGit, etc. to work.