> It's interesting to watch people here defend git's interface as if it was all a very deliberate, intricate design that is well justified and thought out, when

> It's interesting to watch people here defend git's interface as if it was all a very deliberate, intricate design that is well justified and thought out, when it very clearly grew organically. I don't see people doing too often, to be honest. I do see git proponents saying that commands like git-checkout are misunderstood, but that isn't contradictory to "organic growth". From the beginning Linus was claiming that git was more of a content-addressable filesystem than an actual designed VCS. If anything defenses like "git checkout -b is just shorthand for git branch && git checkout" are nothing but an acknowledgment of that organic growth. There's no reason to add a shorthand for a command sequence that no one uses.