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out of curiosity could you enumerate some of the poor design choices in git?
I'm a huge fan of git (but became one the hard way) and I think that most of the poor design decisions are in the command layer. Largely the tendency for the same command to do several things that, to the user, are wildly different (often because they map to the same fundamental operation on the DAG). As the most simple example, git add both adds a new file to the index and adds changes to an existing file to the ind…
I agree the CLI can be a pain, but it's slowly improving. It's in a better state now than it was a few years ago. For example
git push origin :topic-branch
git push origin --delete topic-branch