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Why would someone use SQL, famously bad language, as a query language for git, famously badly designed CLI?
by jakubmazanec 3y ago
Why would someone use SQL, famously bad language, as a query language for git, famously badly designed CLI?
- mpalmer 3y ago"Famously bad" is an opinion cloaked in adverbial authority. Plenty of people like both, and even if they don't like them, they think better in one vs the other.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoSQL is ok, it just needs to be refined a bit. This was such an opportunity but they didn't cease it.
- avgcorrection 3y agoThat git(1) (the user interface) is badly designed is an opinion shared by many people, including many on the Git mailing list. Backwards compatibility is mostly used to argue for the status quo, not that the status quo is good.
- mpalmer 3y agoAll the more reason for alternative interfaces.
- onionisafruit 3y agoI like your phrase “adverbial authority”
- amrdeveloper 3y agoFor Me I Think SQL is great for most of the features here and the most important is that people don't need to learn a new full language to use GitQL