From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:46:28 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Okay, one more segment needs to be responded to. Felipe Contreras wrote: > 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.