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Re:Git rebase in depth by theoh on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:51PM (#19880982)
Git is really a toolkit for version control. Linus (or some other Git proponents?) distinguishes between "plumbing" and "porcelain": the infrastructure and the UI.

Linus wouldn't claim to be a brilliant designer of user interfaces. It's totally conceivable that somebody could come along and develop a new way of talking about Git's functionality, implemented by a new "porcelain". Changing the vocabulary, creating a more comprehensible map of the internal logic of the thing...

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Re:Git rebase in depth by mcguire on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:16PM (#19882319)
Unfortunately, none of the porcelains caught on, because all of the power users use plain git.
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Re:Git rebase in depth by jdormit on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:42PM (#19882518)
Except those of us using magit instead ;)
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Re:Git rebase in depth by theoh on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:22PM (#19882831)
Who knows what the future holds. Once upon a time all the power users used assembly language.
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