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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add a --nosort option to pack-objects
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:46:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071207214627.GB13170@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4peu19kr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I need to rant here a bit.
> 
> Sometimes people say "Here is my patch.  If this is accepted, I'll add
> documentation and tests".  My reaction is, "Don't you, as the person who
> proposes that change, believe in your patch deeply enough yourself to be
> willing to perfect it, to make it suitable for consumption by the
> general public, whether it is included in my tree or not?  A change that
> even you do not believe in deeply enough probably to perfect would not
> benefit the general public, so thanks but no thanks, I'll pass."

As you can seen from my other message, I'm *actually* not sure this is
really material for git as a VCS. I will add documentation unrelated to
--nosort to pack-objects anyways.

Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-07 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07 21:10 [RFC/PATCH] Add a --nosort option to pack-objects Mike Hommey
2007-12-07 21:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-07 21:44   ` Mike Hommey
2007-12-07 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-07 21:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-07 21:46   ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-12-07 22:20     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  8:54       ` Mike Hommey

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