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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
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On 4/24/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> >> The content filtering is to massage the content into a shape
> >> that is more convenient for the platform/filesystem/the user to
> >> use.  The keyword here is "more convenient" and not "usable"; in
> >
> > how can "not usable" be "more convenient"?
>
> I think I worded it incorrectly to be misunderstood, but I
> couldn't word them better then, I do not know I can word them
> better now.
>

You don't have to. I just can't force myself to believe it can be
made useful. I'll shut up for now, and wait until I or someone else
proves the code has negligible negative impact on the normal
usage scenarios.