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Up-voted for the salient observation that we're past the point of no return. This occured to me as well recently, when there was a lot of web traffic about the
by sho_hn 15y ago
Up-voted for the salient observation that we're past the point of no return.
This occured to me as well recently, when there was a lot of web traffic about the git devs polling their audience about a minor behavioral change to git push[1]. What I realized then: git's interface is now more or less frozen, too much depends on it never changing significantly, that big 2.0 that'll fix everything will never come. At this point, we're stuck with all of git's quirks, until something new comes along that's significantly better in enough fundamental ways to displace it.
Frustrating in a way, but that's how it goes in the real world. Good thing the core is beautiful.
1 = http://lwn.net/Articles/487131/ http://lwn.net/Articles/487131/
- read_wharf 15y ago"At this point, we're stuck with all of git's quirks, until something new comes along that's significantly better in enough fundamental ways to displace it." A better git than git? git done right?
- sho_hn 15y agoNo, that won't be enough. You need something that's better than git in the same way git is better than SVN: A paradigm shift. Merely being nicer or easier at doing the same thing is rarely enough, you need to do something broadly useful the entrenched tool just cannot do.