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Re: Gitbox

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Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date
Apr 14, 2011, 12:34 UTC
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On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:22 +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> wrote:
> 
> > If that's what he's doing then why does he state that the git binaries
> > are "for your convenience only"--strongly implying his program will work
> > in the absence thereof? I'm hoping he just made a typo--as what he said
> 
> Not at all; as others have explained, you're reading too much into that.

I deal with stupid user tricks on a daily basis. Most people that I've met that aren't very computer savvy (including a number of web programmers) would interpret what he wrote to mean "I'm not going to use the command-line tools, so I can delete them and free up space on my disk" (despite the fact that I'm pretty sure all of us actually agree that's not what he intended). Sating that "Gitbox requires the Git command-line tools and other binaries," and that "I have included version xxx with Gitbox for your convenience, but you may use any newer compatible version as well," would be far more clear. (The key word is "requires.") You'd be surprised (or, well, probably not in your personal case) how many programmers would benefit from it being stated that clearly.

> I believe what he is doing is often called "mere aggregation".
> Perfectly legal, IMO.

I'm pretty sure that's what's going on as well. We've been copying him this whole time so if he feels the need to speak up he can do so.

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-Drew Northup
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  3. Drew NorthupApr 13, 2011
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  7. Randal L. SchwartzApr 13, 2011
  8. Drew NorthupApr 13, 2011
  9. Taylor HedbergApr 13, 2011
  10. Joshua JuranApr 13, 2011
  11. Tim SmithApr 13, 2011
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  13. Vincent van RavesteijnApr 14, 2011
  14. Drew NorthupApr 14, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2011
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