Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2014, 09:51 UTC
Message-ID: <53660d8d74c68_1c89b0930c53@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <eae08db4-f59f-4237-8f04-ebf33dbf6f67@email.android.com>

James Denholm wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >David Lang wrote:
> >> the vast majority of people here do not take that attitude.
> >
> >It's actually the exact opposite. I don't care what is the track record
> >of the people in the discussion.
> 
> Ah, yes, like that discussion we once had where you totally didn't run
> `git log | grep James Denholm` at one point to demonstrate that I had
> not yet made any contributions,instead of actually engaging in
> discussion. Oh, wait.

You mean this thread[1] in which I sent 14 mails directly to you? Yeah, I din't engage in that discussion at all!

And the point I was making is that if I manage to show the community was wrong in some thing (as you claimed), that community wouldn't include you.

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> >If their argument is good, their argument is good.
> 
> The problem, though, is that time and time again you've shown that you
> value your own arguments to the exclusion of all others. You can't
> tell if someone else's argument is good, because it runs against
> yours, and yours must be right because you hold it.

I can show you evidence of how that's a blatant lie. Just two days ago I changed my mind because somebody provided a good argument.

But I'm not going to bother any more with you, you are just spreading lies and tainting the discussion.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247188/focus=247584

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Felipe Contreras