Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 15, 2006, 00:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612150121470.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200612150015.kBF0F7vL004864@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Horst H. von Brand wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > "newbie" doesn't mean "idiot".  Everybody wants to understand what is 
> > > going on.
> 
> > I heartly disagree. I saw so many faces _begging_ me to just say _what_ to 
> > do, not _why_, and quickly, please.
> 
> So? This is meant to be a /tool/. Not wanting to know how it works doesn't
> make one an idiot, it is just economy.

My thoughts exactly.

And I did not want to force understanding onto the users. Heck, I even know people who use git and do not know about the index! They don't need to, either.

Ciao, Dscho