Junio C Hamano wrote: > Brandon Casey writes: >> Just a bit of advice, maybe you should think about softening your tone >> a bit hmm? I find this last sentence to be somewhat repelling and >> tend to refrain from responding to such. > > Oh, so it wasn't just me. I was about to say something similar, > along the lines of "people whom you just called myopic, because you > did not understand the rationale behind their past work, are less > likely to be inclined to help you. you would have more luck if you > ask them nicely.", but I've long given up on helping him be a better > community member and deleted that part. I'm truly sorry. I've only had a cursory look at git-stash.sh, and was merely saying what came to my mind first after a cursory glance: it wasn't an opinion of any sort. A lot of things I say are stupid in retrospect: I'm not ashamed to admit it; I'm an inexperienced kid, and I make lots of mistakes. And please don't interpret my comments as attacking the people who wrote the code: in a community like ours, I don't believe in associating blame to any one person; I believe that all of us are equally responsible for all parts of the code as a collective; if something doesn't match what I expect, why didn't I participate in the discussion of the patch that led up to it? I complain very loudly about little things that annoy me, and I think this is a good attribute. People who are generally happy with the current state of affairs cannot make a big difference. This does not mean that I go on a stubborn rampage breaking backward compatibility everywhere, but rather that I raise the kind of questions that other people normally don't. I do not blame people for who they are: they are just a product of their histories; a sum of absorbed influences. It is, therefore, irrational to be rude to someone. If someone is not behaving as I expect them to, I send them a polite off-list email pointing out what I think their negative attributes are, and attempt to nudge them in the desired direction. I'll try to be a better community member in the future. -- 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