Re: [Resend PATCH] t3903 (stash): add failing test for ref of form ^{/message}

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2013, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mdNWxTVf9rhRO7Z8qnGT9J4R3UicGUNKdBkZuOctoBRQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7veheal28i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Brandon Casey writes:
>> Just a bit of advice, maybe you should think about softening your tone
>> a bit hmm?  I find this last sentence to be somewhat repelling and
>> tend to refrain from responding to such.
>
> Oh, so it wasn't just me.  I was about to say something similar,
> along the lines of "people whom you just called myopic, because you
> did not understand the rationale behind their past work, are less
> likely to be inclined to help you. you would have more luck if you
> ask them nicely.", but I've long given up on helping him be a better
> community member and deleted that part.

I'm truly sorry.

I've only had a cursory look at git-stash.sh, and was merely saying what came to my mind first after a cursory glance: it wasn't an opinion of any sort. A lot of things I say are stupid in retrospect: I'm not ashamed to admit it; I'm an inexperienced kid, and I make lots of mistakes. And please don't interpret my comments as attacking the people who wrote the code: in a community like ours, I don't believe in associating blame to any one person; I believe that all of us are equally responsible for all parts of the code as a collective; if something doesn't match what I expect, why didn't I participate in the discussion of the patch that led up to it?

I complain very loudly about little things that annoy me, and I think this is a good attribute. People who are generally happy with the current state of affairs cannot make a big difference. This does not mean that I go on a stubborn rampage breaking backward compatibility everywhere, but rather that I raise the kind of questions that other people normally don't.

I do not blame people for who they are: they are just a product of their histories; a sum of absorbed influences. It is, therefore, irrational to be rude to someone. If someone is not behaving as I expect them to, I send them a polite off-list email pointing out what I think their negative attributes are, and attempt to nudge them in the desired direction.

I'll try to be a better community member in the future.