From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Morgan Schweers Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:31:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: <200504272049.NAA14598@emf.net> Reply-To: Morgan Schweers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 28 10:28:34 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DR4MS-0001Pv-Pd for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:27:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261818AbVD1Ib5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:31:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261543AbVD1Ib5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:31:57 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.203]:54817 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261818AbVD1IbR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:31:17 -0400 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 13so415170nzp for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:31:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IjBiq9Pq2IBnyklWHJ8l4DUvz20NCEmqqyWLE5UV0hOusUW37MjKYr5A+iiwi0npD+wK0Iiz1v1ub6g12bkqvCOlLEc8iAZclVk92hZ/ji+iAhm8AaBB36MoYTPdipY9r9/NfL28V8d9kReXGW8mcvVzuJxrAYCMbfLHV6KJirE= Received: by 10.36.9.12 with SMTP id 12mr86273nzi; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.9.13 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:31:12 -0700 (PDT) To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.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 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