Ask HN: How would you redesign git?

4 points by tashmahalic 3y ago ↗ HN

Git is popular. We have years of usage behind us now. With the benefit of hindsight, if you could redesign it now from scratch, with nary a concern for backwards compatibility, how would you improve its interface or architecture?

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wmf 3y ago ↗

Check out Gitless and Sapling.

JoeyBananas 3y ago ↗

I would change the term "The index" to "The staging area."

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/git-staging-area-re...

marssaxman 3y ago ↗

That's easy: I'd replace git with mercurial.

more_corn 3y ago ↗

Name things better

felipec 3y ago ↗

So many things, but if I were to pick one, I would add a `git stage` command to work with the staging area (wrongly called "the index").

git stage add (git add), git stage delete (git rm --cached), git stage diff (git diff --cached), git stage edit (not possible today)