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Article argues that git is intrinsically confusing--if you could redesign git from scratch, what would you change? (dl.acm.org)
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[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

I must say I like the idea of having changes to files be bound to just the current branch, not the entire worktree (section 6.4.2), but other than that the points that are brought up don't really seem too compelling. It certainly didn't convince me that git has an inherently flawed design. For example, eliminating the staging area is a tempting point for simplifying git, but the authors already admit that it has some legitimate use cases.

But of course it is always nice to see some experimentation done in this space. I think the main reason why git sometimes is confusing, is because distributed version control really is a complex task, and git already does a very good job at making it tractable.