> terrible software The Git DAG and its content-addressable file system are an elegant solution to the problem of distributed version control. The implementati

> terrible software The Git DAG and its content-addressable file system are an elegant solution to the problem of distributed version control. The implementation is clean and dead-simple, yet immensely powerful. This is the basis of good engineering. > an even worse UX Git was designed to expose its underlying implementation and not to isolate the user from it. Unlike other systems, its subcommands give the user the ability to manipulate the underlying data structure directly. That doesn't mean it has a bad UX. Just that it has the UX of a power tool. I also think that Git played a big role in the growth and popularity of command-line tools over the past decade. And that its interface inspired the subcommand pattern that is now commonplace in docker, vagrant, and others.