If you like the idea of Gitless it is a thing you can install and try yourself: http://gitless.com/
- Matt On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:55 AM W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 09:23:25AM -0400, Greg Wilson wrote: > > > Based on this analysis, we designed a reworking of Git (called > > > Gitless) that attempts to remedy these flaws. > > When Git-wrappers have come up on this list in in the past, the > balance has been between the wrapper APIs (which are clearly more > consistent) and the ubiquity of vanilla Git (so if you have a problem, > odds are excellent that many others have had the same problem and > posted solutions or workarounds online). Many Git developers also > acknowledge inconsistencies in the Git API, but most existing UX > problems cannot be fixed without breaking existing consumers or > creating redundant APIs [1–11]. Now that the ground has been broken, > it's easier to figure out an API that makes sense. And eventually one > of the cleaner APIs will gain enough mass to make the vanilla-Git > ubiquity argument less convincing. And the cleaner APIs might even be > gradual evolutions of vanilla Git itself ;). > > Cheers, > Trevor > > [1]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2015-11-11-edition-9.markdown#L149-L163 > [2]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2015-11-11-edition-9.markdown#L203-L211 > [3]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2015-12-09-edition-10.markdown#L140-L145 > [4]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-02-10-edition-12.markdown#L169-L175 > [5]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-03-16-edition-13.markdown#L244-L249 > [6]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-04-20-edition-14.markdown#L258-L264 > [7]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-05-11-edition-15.markdown#L212-L222 > [8]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-06-15-edition-16.markdown#L235-L240 > [9]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-07-20-edition-17.markdown#L245-L259 > [10]: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blame/1f4b680ed4bdfea5a9238707ef0e51d8e193736a/_posts/2016-08-17-edition-18.markdown#L184-L189 > [11]: https://xkcd.com/927/ > > -- > This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). > For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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