https://github.com/evmar/gat

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/evmar/gat
• Owner: evmar
• License: other
• Created: 2008-10-19T23:58:47.000Z (about 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2008-11-04T00:12:54.000Z (about 16 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T22:17:12.427Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage: http://neugierig.org/software/git/?url=gat/
• Size: 187 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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Why?

- To learn how Git works.

- For fun.

Goals/principles:

- a Gat tree should always be usable by Git.

- be comparable, speed-wise, to Git.

- remove, unify, and simplify the UI; it's ok to be less "powerful" than Git.

- more options are not always better.

- it's ok to break backwards UI compatibility for greater consistency.  it's ok

  to remove features.

- liberally steal from other, better UIs (in particular darcs).

Ideas:

- represent the whole index/tree distinction by having a "stage" command,

  which stages files for commit.  then avoid it as much as possible.

- make "commit" like "commit -a", while "commit --staged" (or in response to a

  prompt if "commit" with stated content) like "commit".

- similarly, "diff" is always "diff HEAD", while "diff --staged" like

  "diff --cached".

- eliminate the many modes of reset.  flushing the index is a stage subcommand;

  resetting the tree is "revert", and fiddling with the branch pointers (reset

  --soft) is a separate command.

- figure out a better name / mode of operation for "rebase".  provide a more

  darcs-like interactive ui.

- in general, have the -i flag (for commit, stage, rebase) be interactive like

  darcs.