From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:46:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add a --nosort option to pack-objects
Message-ID: <20071207214627.GB13170@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4peu19kr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I need to rant here a bit.
> 
> Sometimes people say "Here is my patch.  If this is accepted, I'll add
> documentation and tests".  My reaction is, "Don't you, as the person who
> proposes that change, believe in your patch deeply enough yourself to be
> willing to perfect it, to make it suitable for consumption by the
> general public, whether it is included in my tree or not?  A change that
> even you do not believe in deeply enough probably to perfect would not
> benefit the general public, so thanks but no thanks, I'll pass."

As you can seen from my other message, I'm *actually* not sure this is
really material for git as a VCS. I will add documentation unrelated to
--nosort to pack-objects anyways.

Mike