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The core of Git isn't that complicated. A merkle tree backed by a content-addressable store. That's very much in the realm of possible within a week. It wasn't
by zaphar 5y ago
The core of Git isn't that complicated. A merkle tree backed by a content-addressable store. That's very much in the realm of possible within a week. It wasn't very easy to use in it's first iteration. All of the porcelain that has been built around it is where 90% of the development has gone.
- brundolf 5y agoWhere by "porcelain" I assume you mean "easy to mishandle and break" ;)
- zaphar 5y agoI'm certainly one of those people who think git makes stupid mistakes a little too easy to do, so I'm on board with that definition.
- teeray 5y agoHeh, an unintentional consequence of word choice :) “Porcelain” is used in contrast to “plumbing.” Both terms are used in the gut documentation to differentiate the more complex, user-facing features of Git (e.g. `git commit`) from the raw features used by other tool authors (e.g. `git for-each-ref`)
- xigoi 5y agoWait, it used to be even harder to use?
- zaphar 5y agoYou have no idea.