On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Users are lazy. > > And the ones that suffer from the issue discussed in this thread will not > read the manual your patch touches. When you make changes to the manual, > you should not be targetting them, as they won't read it anyway. Instead, > the description of the manual should aim to help people who _read_ it. The world is not clear-cut between users who read, and users don't. Most probably user laziness follows a Pareto distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pareto_distributionPDF.png The long tail of users who don't read much is so big that you will find *a lot* that don't read anything at all, therefore you would also find many that read a bit, and as a consequence a tiny amount that actually would read the whole user manual. Clearly, Thomas' comment implies that some people might need to adjust their mental model to reflect reality. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
