Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 15, 2007, 07:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20070815073811.GL27913@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <86k5rx474o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

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>     Load a Hive, Query, Save, Restore, and Unload a Hive. To install
>     the Support Tools:
> 
>     1.
> 
> 
>     Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

Indeed, that step right there will stop many users cold in their tracks.

Who the hell has their Windows 2000 CD-ROM handy? Or wants to open a CD-ROM drive? Or wants to wait for a 40x CD-ROM to spin up and copy data? Who even still has a CD-ROM drive connected to a computer? (I usually don't have any optical media drive attached...)

Where's the damn URL to download setup.exe? Where's the webpage with the Internet Explorer buffer overflow exploit to automatically install the software for the user? Why doesn't it create a thousand icons on the desktop, obscuring the user's picture of their kitty?

;-)

-- 
Shawn.