Re: Cross-Platform Version Control

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> 
> > I'm as much of an open source developer as anyone else here.  I spend 
> > a huge amount of my time programming for KDE.  But I've never told a 
> > user "well that settles it" because they won't code it themselves :-/ 
> > I certaintly get a huge number of bug/wishes that I can't/won't code 
> > myself, but I try to be a bit more diplomatic about it.
> >
> > But then the kernel mailing lists tend to be a lot more.. direct.. 
> > than the kde mailing lists, so I guess it comes from that.  Requiring 
> > people to have a thick skin and all that.
> 
> This is not the kernel mailing list.  In fact this list is quite 
> friendlier and accommodating that the kernel list.
> 
> The remark alluded above comes from _one_ of the git developers.  And 
> Dscho is apparently in a rather sad mood these days. While the substance 
> of Dscho's remark is entirely pertinent, it would be wrong to use its 
> form and style as a characterization of git developers in general.

Even if I were in a better mood, the whole thread has a back story on an 
msysGit issue, and this led me to try to stop what I feared would become a 
rather long mail thread without much of an outcome, such as that infamous 
thread about MacOSX UTF-8 filename handling.

Alas, it seems that Robin is willing to work on the issues, so my fears 
have been totally and completely unfounded.

Ciao,
Dscho