Re: [PATCH] reset: add --quiet option

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>> Because the less trivial the patches, the less luck I have of getting
>> them applied :)
>
> Well, the name of the game is not "let me have more commits under my name
> in a well known project".  It is "let's work together to make the system
> better without stepping on each other's toes and without introducing
> unintended side effects".

Except that different people have different opinions about what's
"better", when it's OK to step on somebody else's toes,  and what's an
important side-effect.

> I actually do not think it is the complexity that matters.  It largely
> depends on what other patches are in flight that may have interactions,
> and if the change is suitable for the phase of the cycle.

And whether or not you consider the change desirable at all.

-- 
Felipe Contreras