Ask HN: How would you redesign git?

[tashmahalic]

Git is popular. We have years of usage behind us now. With the benefit of hindsight, if you could redesign it now from scratch, with nary a concern for backwards compatibility, how would you improve its interface or architecture?

[JoeyBananas]

I would change the term "The index" to "The staging area."

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/git-staging-area-re...

[felipec]

So many things, but if I were to pick one, I would add a `git stage` command to work with the staging area (wrongly called "the index").

git stage add (git add), git stage delete (git rm --cached), git stage diff (git diff --cached), git stage edit (not possible today)

[marssaxman]

That's easy: I'd replace git with mercurial.

[wmf]

Check out Gitless and Sapling.

[more_corn]

Name things better