Hi Junio, On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > I think you both got it wrong. The original citizens were the mail > > clients that allowed you to communicate with other human beings. > > ... It is our usage to transport machine-readable content (and not > > as an attachment!) that is the intruder. > > It is not "its is our usage". > > You are too young to remember or too old to remember the history, or > you are knowingly distorting it. The original users of "patch" and > "diff" expected that e-mail to be a medium to safely exchange > changes to programs among themselves. If you are saying that transporting patches via email was the original purpose of email, then it is not exactly I who is misremembering history. But that is not what you meant, I believe. You probably wanted to point out that the Git developers are not the first ones to abuse the medium known as email that way. And you are correct, of course. And I never claimed anything else. I just said that the problem is our usage of emails as a means to transport byte-exact content intended primarily to be consumed by a program instead of a human. It does not matter whether others did that before us. It is the problem we face right now, that is the important part of my message. And even if it seems as if you are eagerly defending this system, I do not believe even a microsecond that you think it is a good system. I believe that you, too, would welcome a better review/contribution system that is easier to use, more welcoming to new users, less error-prone and less time-wasting than the current, email-based one, just like you jumped on Git as a better SCM when it came around, from whatever inadequate system you came from. Ciao, Dscho -- 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