From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20081003122727.GE10360@machine.or.cz> <20081006141840.GO10360@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , Petr Baudis , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 21:49:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kmw4q-00067B-3z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:49:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753125AbYJFTrz (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:47:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753030AbYJFTrz (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:47:55 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35886 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752664AbYJFTrz (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:47:55 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m96JlH2T007334 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:47:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m96JlGFf002378; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:47:16 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.436 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED,PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > It is not a bug. If it's unwanted functionality, that's a bug. That's kind of the whole (and only) difference between "bug" and "feature". Do people want it? And Petr made it clear that he didn't want it. And I can certainly understand why - so it's not just some confused user. As such, it's clearly not a feature, and is clearly a bug. Linus