From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Our official home page and logo for the Git project Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:24:34 +0200 Message-ID: <53481742.4090304@alum.mit.edu> References: <534578b2e22e2_af197d3081@nysa.notmuch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Felipe Contreras , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 18:24:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYeFz-0004qO-7h for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:24:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423063AbaDKQYl (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:24:41 -0400 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu ([18.7.68.12]:56654 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422976AbaDKQYi (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:24:38 -0400 X-AuditID: 1207440c-f79656d000003eba-2d-5348174592c9 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id EC.F1.16058.54718435; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:24:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.130] (p5DDB1150.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.219.17.80]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id s3BGOZew002766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:24:36 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <534578b2e22e2_af197d3081@nysa.notmuch> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFprBKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqOsq7hFsMKtFzuLg4zyLrivdTBYN vVeYHZg9ds66y+5x8ZKyx+dNcgHMUdw2SYklZcGZ6Xn6dgncGTc6X7IW9LNVTLjTx9LA+JKl i5GTQ0LARGLPja3MELaYxIV769m6GLk4hAQuM0p8btrJCOGcY5J4/fc1I0gVr4C2xPUDG5lA bBYBVYn3T36ygdhsAroSi3qageIcHKICQRJ/zipClAtKnJz5BGyZiECxxNoNDWCtwgIOEmfm bWEFsYUEkiR23d8PdgQn0EHr9zSzgYyREBCX6GkMAjGZBdQl1s8TAqlgFpCX2P52DvMERoFZ SBbMQqiahaRqASPzKka5xJzSXN3cxMyc4tRk3eLkxLy81CJdQ73czBK91JTSTYyQkOXZwfht ncwhRgEORiUe3gOX3IKFWBPLiitzDzFKcjApifIqinoEC/El5adUZiQWZ8QXleakFh9ilOBg VhLh3XTVPViINyWxsiq1KB8mJc3BoiTOq7pE3U9IID2xJDU7NbUgtQgmK8PBoSTBayUGNFSw KDU9tSItM6cEIc3EwQkynEtKpDg1LyW1KLG0JCMeFKPxxcAoBUnxAO0NB2nnLS5IzAWKQrSe YtTl2LBtTSOTEEtefl6qlDjvUZDDBUCKMkrz4FbAEtQrRnGgj4V5M0FG8QCTG9ykV0BLmICW XJoM8lxxSSJCSqqBUf/6o+TSievXb/F7b3+vKvKPRLT9xrdSntF2bjZWoZclZ7EmmQVeMNGs EozSyJWz/OFxl/9YfqbCq36JVzMvTbDhMazexmi4wKRyl3TF1zlPfHxZZfSKts+v Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 04/09/2014 06:43 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> - To officially adopt the logo that appears on the "project >> home page" as our "project logo". > > I have made my objections to that logo before, but here it goes again: bright > red is a horrible color for a logo, as it only looks good in limited > situations. I propose you use the logo I chose for git-fc[1] which has a better > color, and instead of showing commits going down, they go up. That's funny; I think that commits *already* go up in the red logo, because what is represented is a merge, not a branch. Robust and easy merging, after all, was one of Git's early claims to fame. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/