sue that could be backward-compatibly
fixed, but compared to the above problems that are intrinsic to the
design of git-filter-branch, the language of the tool itself is a
relatively minor issue.</p>
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<p>Side note: Unfortunately, people tend to fixate on the
written-in-shell aspect and periodically ask if git-filter-branch
could be rewritten in another language to fix the performance
issues.  Not only does that ignore the bigger intrinsic problems
with the design, it&#8217;d hel