From: Morgan Schweers <mschweers@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:31:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8464fde050428013144672950@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504271722260.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
Greetings,
This is off topic, but this is a great paragraph, and an incredibly
concise and valuable lesson for pre-architect software developers.
On 4/27/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
[...deletia...]
> Doing development is a lot about communication. Writing code in many
> ways is secondary - it's much more important to try to make sure that
> everybody knows what the goals are, because the _real_ pain in
> development ends up being not the coding, but the much more fundamental
> disagreements that happen when people really have totally different
> expectations of what the end result is going to be.
[...deletia...]
> Linus
-- Morgan Schweers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 5:43 A shortcoming of the git repo format H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 15:00 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-27 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 18:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 18:32 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-27 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 22:51 ` Jon Seymour
2005-04-27 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:39 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-27 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:47 ` The " Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-27 20:40 ` A shortcoming of the " H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 20:49 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-27 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 1:34 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-28 2:14 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-28 3:37 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-04-28 8:31 ` Morgan Schweers [this message]
2005-04-28 15:08 ` Barry Silverman
2005-04-27 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 0:45 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-28 0:46 ` David Lang
2005-04-27 23:50 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-27 23:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 1:51 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-28 1:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 13:39 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-27 20:58 ` Gerhard Schrenk
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