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/
>
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