On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:57 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > Umm. What exactly makes you feel you should ignore the discussions we had > > > around the issues on the git and msysgit mailing list? > > > > Well, this was partly my fault, as I did not make it clear in this part > > that beating the horse that has been dead for two years is not a > > productive way to spend out time. I however did, in the part David did > > not quote, try to make it clear: > > > > That's all history now anyway. We should try to do better the next time, > > which is much more important, and that is the topic of this message. > > I don't want to stir up this discussion too much; I am sure you have > many more important things to be working on. But I did want to make one > observation. > > One side of the argument, I see a lot of "I would prefer it this way." > And on the other side I see a lot of "this discussion is already > history" and "but I do not care personally that much." > > It makes me wonder why nobody has said "no, really, I prefer it without > the programs in /bin." Are they simply confident that the decision has > been made, and don't feel the need to say something? It's pretty normal to see opponents of a decision like this complain loudly when it lands on their system, whereas the silent majority in favour will be happy to see the change finally implemented but reluctant to stir up the discussion again. I don't think new arguments are brought to the discussion, just new people, who are temporarily inconvened by a change towards sanity. Kristian -- 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
