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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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Apr 18, 2013, 11:46 UTC
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Okay, one more segment needs to be responded to.
Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> If remote-hg wasn't available for users, they would be hurt; if stash
> wasn't available, if rebase --interactive didn't exist, if there was
> no msysgit, if it wasn't so fast, if the object model wasn't so simple
> and extensible; users would be hurt. And if users didn't have all
> these, there would be less users, and if there were less users, there
> would be less developers, and mercurial might have been more popular,
> and most repositories you have to work on would be in mercurial, and
> you might be developing mercurial right now.
Flawed logic.

A large number of users doesn't automatically imply good software with lots of features, or even a great development community. A great development community leads to great software. And great software leads to lots of users. Sure, there's a feedback loop pushing users to become developers; but it doesn't start with users of vaporware, leading to more developers joining the effort to turn that vaporware into a great product.

Life doesn't begin with users.
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Message 26 of 85 in “What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)”
  1. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  2. Felipe ContrerasApr 15, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  4. Felipe ContrerasApr 15, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  6. Felipe ContrerasApr 16, 2013
  7. Thomas RastApr 16, 2013
  8. Felipe ContrerasApr 16, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 16, 2013
  11. Phil HordApr 16, 2013
  12. Felipe ContrerasApr 16, 2013
  13. Phil HordApr 16, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  15. Felipe ContrerasApr 17, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  17. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  18. Matthieu MoyApr 18, 2013
  19. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  20. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 18, 2013
  21. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  22. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 18, 2013
  23. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  24. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 18, 2013
  25. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  26. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 18, 2013
  27. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  28. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 23, 2013
  29. Felipe ContrerasApr 23, 2013
  30. Phil HordApr 18, 2013
  31. Felipe ContrerasApr 18, 2013
  32. Phil HordApr 19, 2013
  33. Felipe ContrerasApr 20, 2013
  34. Jeff KingApr 15, 2013
  35. Øyvind A. HolmApr 15, 2013
  36. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  37. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  38. Eric SunshineApr 16, 2013
  39. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  40. Drew NorthupApr 16, 2013
  41. "What's cooking" between #05 and #06Junio C Hamano, Apr 16, 2013
  42. John KeepingApr 17, 2013
  43. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  44. Jens LehmannApr 17, 2013
  45. John KeepingApr 18, 2013
  46. Lukas FleischerApr 17, 2013
  47. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  48. Thomas RastApr 17, 2013
  49. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  50. Thomas RastApr 17, 2013
  51. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  52. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  53. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  54. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2013
  55. git add <pathspec>... defaults to "-A"Junio C Hamano, Apr 18, 2013
  56. Jeff KingApr 18, 2013
  57. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2013
  58. Jeff KingApr 18, 2013
  59. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2013
  60. Jeff KingApr 18, 2013
  61. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2013
  62. Jeff KingApr 18, 2013
  63. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2013
  64. Jeff KingApr 19, 2013
  65. Jonathan NiederApr 19, 2013
  66. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2013
  67. Jeff KingApr 19, 2013
  68. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2013
  69. jc/add-2.0-delete-default (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15))Jonathan Nieder, Apr 21, 2013
  70. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2013
  71. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2013
  72. 0/2 "git add -A/--no-all" finishing touchesJunio C Hamano, Apr 22, 2013
  73. 1/2 git add: --ignore-removal is a better named --no-allJunio C Hamano, Apr 22, 2013
  74. 2/2 git add: rephrase -A/--no-all warningJunio C Hamano, Apr 22, 2013
  75. 3/2 git add <pathspec>... defaults to "-A"Junio C Hamano, Apr 22, 2013
  76. Eric SunshineApr 23, 2013
  77. Junio C HamanoApr 25, 2013
  78. Junio C HamanoApr 25, 2013
  79. Jonathan NiederApr 25, 2013
  80. Junio C HamanoApr 25, 2013
  81. Junio C HamanoApr 25, 2013
  82. Jonathan NiederApr 25, 2013
  83. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2013
  84. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2013
  85. Jonathan NiederApr 26, 2013

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