{"thread":{"id":"59826","subject":"Release Notes wrongly identify git as a self-learning program","startedAt":"2023-06-02T12:43:55Z","lastAt":"2023-06-02T12:58:16Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Tim Tassonis","Kristoffer Haugsbakk"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"477946","messageId":"1201c202-e046-01a3-df87-d959f0611725@decentral.ch","threadId":"59826","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Release Notes wrongly identify git as a self-learning program","fromName":"Tim Tassonis","fromEmail":"stuff@decentral.ch","sentAt":"2023-06-02T12:08:03Z","receivedAt":"2023-06-02T12:43:55Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"stuff@decentral.ch","avatar":null},"body":"Hi all\n\nWhen checking the release notes of Git v2.4, I stumbled upon various \nhilariously stupid entries like:\n\n* \"git format-patch\" learned to write...\n* \"git clone\" from an empty repository learned to propagate ...\n* \"git send-email\" learned to giv\n\nand even:\n\n* \"git mergetool\" and \"git difftool\" learns a new...\n* The credential subsystem learns\n\n\nI can maybe live with:\n\n* \"git push\" has been taught\n* A few subcommands have been taught\n\nIs this some sort of joke, or AI/chat-gpt bandwagonin?\n\nTo my knowledge, git 2.41 still is a piece of software written and \nenhanced by human beings and neither is taught something, let alone even \n\"learned\" or is \"learning\" something.\n\nWhy on earth is git now being described as some sort of sentient, \nself-optimizing being?\n\nAre technical git Release Notes now being written some kind of marketing \npeople?\n\nBye\nTim\n\n\n"},{"id":"477947","messageId":"79bddb7f-d120-4898-ac9e-cff9b404918b@app.fastmail.com","threadId":"59826","inReplyTo":"1201c202-e046-01a3-df87-d959f0611725@decentral.ch","subject":"Re: Release Notes wrongly identify git as a self-learning program","fromName":"Kristoffer Haugsbakk","fromEmail":"code@khaugsbakk.name","sentAt":"2023-06-02T12:56:24Z","receivedAt":"2023-06-02T12:58:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"code@khaugsbakk.name","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2229597?v=4"},"body":"\nHi\n\nThis is just the commit messsge jargon. :) it's been like this for years.\n\nLong before ChatGPT.\n-- \nKristoffer Haugsbakk\n"}]}