> 1. Git needs a shared-library interface, so that interfaces to git can be built without quoting and parsing (the two most error-prone operations in computing)

> 1. Git needs a shared-library interface, so that interfaces to git can be built without quoting and parsing (the two most error-prone operations in computing). Every special tool I've ever wanted to create in git I've been able to do with pipes in either shell scripts or python scripts using data export options generally used by the porcelain. People have built good APIs on top of this, and in a few cases built direct object access interfaces, but I stopped thinking library access was important when I started actually writing tools.