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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:26:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Cc: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> And I absolutely agree with Pasky that this does _nothing_ in the vague 
> direction of wielding a reputation of being easy to use.

Staying with git versions prior 1.5 isn't either.  In fact, git had a 
much harder time with its usability reputation in those days.  In other 
words, if some user of Debian is rebutted by the upgrade path for a later 
git version, then the awkwardness of git 1.4.4 UI will be even worse.

Anyway this is all hand waving until someone can come with some evidence 
that git 1.4.4 is actually used by a significant amount of people, and 
that those people depend on dumb transfer protocols.


Nicolas