Re: rev-parse doesn't take pwd into consideration

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 26, 2008, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprr84tzc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200805262135.m4QLZtpq023003@mi0.bluebottle.com>

しらいしななこ  <nanako3@bluebottle.com> writes:

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> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>> This was discussed to death.  Check the list archive.
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> Junio, sometimes I think you are being very mean.  I am reasonably sure you meant this one, but why didn't you give a pointer for him?

Well, because my response roughly translates to "Your lack of research before posting would have wasted other's time, don't do it", I _could_ have spent some time researching before posting to keep Luciano from spending his time on going back to the list archive. Setting a good example, so to speak.

In that sense, perhaps you may have a point.

But I do not think I (or we collectively as the project) can afford to keep doing that in the longer term. A minute lost for me is a minute lost for the project to review and integrate changes that others spent dozens of minutes, perhaps hours, to come up with. So I should not be constantly doing the archive research for other people.

My response might have been mean, and I instead could have ignored it and allow the thread to waste time of others responding to it, but that would have been a worse alternative than nipping it off in the bud. I am not sure what better alternatives there were, other than having a dedicated secretary/librarian to do the archive research for the community.

> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68786/focus=68852

Yeah, that's the one I had in mind. I like quoting the threaded interface from gmane --- it makes the context of old discussion very clear.

Thanks.