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> You need to know some C to contribute to a package written in C. > Similarly, I think it's reasonable to expect knowledge of some git to > explore the history of a package using git. Those two issues look similar at a superficial glance, but they are fundamentally very different. It is impossible to understand a program without knowing the language it is written in. But git is just a development tool. It is only marginally necessary -- not crucial. In any case, remember that the problem with git is that its commands to study the history predictably fail in certain cases. The program I want people to write would work around that failure. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
