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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by kortilla on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:24AM (#21978353)
The interface can be swapped out if the underlying storage is fine. There is nothing preventing you from writing a different front end where “checkout” doesn’t do all the things.
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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by wyoung2 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:10AM (#21980606)
Which is why there are dozens of Git front-ends, fragmenting the market, reducing the benefit of cross-training within a team. "Oh, you can't do that in your TortoiseStudioCodeThingy? I just right-click and select Frobnicate File, and it fixes all that!"

Thus editor wars, language wars...

Alternative: a tool like Fossil where the CLI is sensible from jump so the whole team doesn't replace it with something better, uniquely per team member.

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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by baud147258 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:31AM (#21978995)
> There is nothing preventing you from writing a different front end

Or you could just use a tool where the interface is fine out of the box

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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by afiori on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:30AM (#21978984)
Yet no one is doing it.
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