On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:34:43PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Russell King wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:17:05PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > We didn't know the conversation was going on. Why should we? We only > > > use the tool, not develop it. I'm also not on the mailing lists for > > > mutt, vim, gcc, binutils, openssh, grep, xchat, mozilla, gnome, xpdf or > > > any of the dozens of other programs I use on a daily basis. > > > > Well said Matthew, as a git _user_ I completely agree. > > So are you effectively saying that we should have asked on all the mailing > list of existing and potential Git users to ask their opinions? No. I'm effectively saying that *you shouldn't break backwards compatibility*. Ever. It only annoys people. Including: - The maintainer who has to listen to all this whining - Everyone who gets this thread cc'd in their inbox - People who hadn't been informed of the new way of doing things - People who thought they'd got their own way and now have to suffer the 'silent majority' speaking up. - Linus -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
