From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Problem with cg-diff Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 10:36:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20050530083603.GD1036@pasky.ji.cz> References: <1117408555.7072.109.camel@pegasus> <20050529233840.GY1036@pasky.ji.cz> <7vis11ftvm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050530003242.GA1036@pasky.ji.cz> <7vfyw55eu2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: GIT Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 30 10:34:22 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcfiP-0002Gc-Sm for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2005 10:33:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261561AbVE3IgK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 04:36:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261563AbVE3IgK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 04:36:10 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:23692 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261561AbVE3IgE (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 04:36:04 -0400 Received: (qmail 18932 invoked by uid 2001); 30 May 2005 08:36:03 -0000 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vfyw55eu2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dear diary, on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:54:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis writes: > > PB> Ok, so this is what you get when you mix: sleepiness, performing only > PB> mental experiments not verified in practice, and inattentive reading of > PB> the code. > > PB> I'm sorry for bothering. Instruct yourself from my bad example, please. > PB> :-) > > If you forbid people to ask for help when the person who is > asked might feel the question groundless or based on "only > mental experiments not verified in practice and inattentive > reading of the code", the value to have a community diminishes. > > We ask questions and ask for help because we know others know > more about things we do not know offhand, not necessarily > because we would not ever be able to figure them out ourselves. > > If you know somebody else would know the answer immediately for > something that may take you a day or so to figure out, asking > for help is the right thing to do --- your time is better spent > on what you do best (e.g. improving Cogito). Well, you definitively have a point. I just felt guilty that if I would've spent ten seconds actually testing it, you wouldn't have to spent ten minutes (or who knows how long) replying to my silly question. > I should not feel bothered by your questions, and I am certainly not > feeling bothered at all (well, at least until seeing the last > sentence, and wondering what you really meant ;-)). I meant you all on the mailing list, not you specifically. English is sometimes annoying. ;-) (And I was just trying to be funny, in my usual awful way.) > Always glad to be of help. Thanks. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor