On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:08:56 +0100
"Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <k0ga_AT_shike2.com> wrote:
> It is due to git keeps the api in small programs than you could use in your
> scripts. These small programs are 100% Unix philosophy (do only one thing and
> do it fine, write an output that can be used as input for other, ...). Work
> with these low-level progams (plumbling in git vocabulary) is hard,
Get Plan 9 and spend some time writing shell script using nothing but
the programs Plan 9 provides. With a little persistence you'll find how
much better it is to have a few (tiny) tools than a huge mess of
different ones.
--
Developing the austere intellectual discipline of keeping things
sufficiently simple is in this environment a formidable challenge,
both technically and educationally.
-- Dijstraka, EWD898, 1984
Received on Mon Dec 03 2012 - 11:37:55 CET