From: Felipe Contreras Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:21:42 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: show interesting ident information in summary Message-ID: <94a0d4531001141721j261facedlf5d1bd9e611c224c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vy6k0bheg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> 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