From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
David Lang <david@lang.hm>, Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 09:48:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sioqugpg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eae08db4-f59f-4237-8f04-ebf33dbf6f67@email.android.com> (James Denholm's message of "Sun, 04 May 2014 16:50:58 +1000")
James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com> writes:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>David Lang wrote:
>>> the vast majority of people here do not take that attitude.
>>
>>It's actually the exact opposite. I don't care what is the track record
>>of the people in the discussion.
>
> Ah, yes, like that discussion we once had where you totally
> didn't run `git log | grep James Denholm` at one point to demonstrate
> that I had not yet made any
> contributions,instead of actually engaging in discussion. Oh,
> wait.
It's called an "ad hominem attack", and it's a very common and very
effective rhetorical device.
Cf
<URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/246598/focus=247002>
> The problem, though, is that time and time again you've
> shown that you value your own arguments to the exclusion
> of all others. You can't tell if someone else's argument is
> good, because it runs against yours, and yours must be
> right because you hold it.
If he considered others capable of independent thought, would he call
out their imperviousness to rhetorics as a deficiency?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-04 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-02 15:37 Pull is Mostly Evil Marc Branchaud
2014-05-02 15:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 16:05 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 19:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:34 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 22:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-03 20:24 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 23:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 11:24 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-03 11:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 19:31 ` David Lang
2014-05-02 19:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 19:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 20:58 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 21:48 ` Jeff King
2014-05-02 21:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:36 ` Jeff King
2014-05-02 23:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 2:18 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-06 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 22:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 7:56 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-03 8:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03 9:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 9:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04 4:30 ` David Lang
2014-05-04 4:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 6:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04 6:50 ` James Denholm
2014-05-04 7:48 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-05-04 9:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 10:37 ` James Denholm
2014-05-04 11:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03 9:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 22:09 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 3:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 7:49 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 10:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 19:09 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 21:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-05 5:44 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-05 5:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 22:37 ` Max Kirillov
2014-05-03 10:00 ` John Szakmeister
2014-05-05 15:39 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-05 18:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:12 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-09 19:49 ` Marc Branchaud
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