Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: show interesting ident information in summary
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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- Jan 15, 2010, 01:21 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> Users are lazy. > > And the ones that suffer from the issue discussed in this thread will not > read the manual your patch touches. When you make changes to the manual, > you should not be targetting them, as they won't read it anyway. Instead, > the description of the manual should aim to help people who _read_ it.
The world is not clear-cut between users who read, and users don't. Most probably user laziness follows a Pareto distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pareto_distributionPDF.png
The long tail of users who don't read much is so big that you will find *a lot* that don't read anything at all, therefore you would also find many that read a bit, and as a consequence a tiny amount that actually would read the whole user manual.
Clearly, Thomas' comment implies that some people might need to adjust their mental model to reflect reality.
-- Felipe Contreras