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Re:Oh Shit, Git? by JadeNB on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:29PM (#42732279)
> Something I heard somewhere that stuck with me: git is less less of a Version Control System, and more of a toolkit for assembling your own flavor of one.

That's how it is in principle, but it seems to me that there aren't that many different CLI "porcelains" in practice. Kind of like how Knuth figured people would essentially write their DSLs on top of plain TeX, not spend most of their time in giant macro packages like LaTeX.

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Re:Oh Shit, Git? by dragonwriter on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:05PM (#42732925)
> That's how it is in principle, but it seems to me that there aren't that many different CLI "porcelains" in practice.

I think that's because most of the people that make custom tooling to support particular workflows build it into graphical (including IDE extensions, web-based. etc.) frontends, not CLIs.

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