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No matter how simple and straight-forward it is, someone is going to fuck it up. And they're going to do so in a way that isn't immediately detectable, but screws the rest of the company because now they have to support something using the screwed up implementation.

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Git has a bunch of tests [0]. I expect that not all of them are git-the-official-CLI-specific.

> And they're going to do so in a way that isn't immediately detectable, but screws the rest of the company because now they have to support something using the screwed up implementation.

eeeeeeeeeh. Sensible companies will figure out how to massage the broken data into the correct form, then go on using the correct software.

[0] https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/t

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