From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce core.keepHardLinks
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:01:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vskr0bnlk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810131057150.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:58:01 +0200 (CEST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> I cannot fathom why a user wants this much rope to hang themselves
>> with...
>
> The question is not so much why anyone want to do this, but _if_.
Sorry, I think the question should be _why_.
You can gain a sympathetic "Ah, that is sensible, and 'this much rope to
hang themselves with' comment was unwarranted" only by answering that
question.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-11 11:45 [PATCH] Introduce core.keepHardLinks Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-12 18:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-13 8:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 14:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-10-13 16:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 16:21 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-10-13 16:23 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-13 17:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 17:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-15 9:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 9:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
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