Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c

On Thursday 2007 March 01 09:32, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I certainly wasn't suggesting that it should be a requirement. I just thought there was a certain irony. Perhaps even a lesson to be learned - find out why someone has chosen (even with git in front of them and deep enough inside to find bugs in it), not to use git.

I think there is a usability lesson to be pulled from this situation. Why didn't Eygene just say:

 $ tar zxvf git-tarball.tgz
 $ cd git
 $ git init
 $ vim http-push.c
 $ git diff

Note, that was not an attack on Eygene - I genuinely am interested to know where we should put the documentation that tells a new user what they need to know quickly.

Somehow, git has failed this person.  I was simply wondering in what way.

However, Eygene's response made it sound like a situational thing - it was inconvenient to actually install git. Fair enough.

Andy