Re: gitweb - bare repos integration - owner info in description file

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 12, 2009, 00:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910120201350.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200910102045.13374.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Eugene Sajine wrote:
>
> > [something, but forgot to say whom he quoted:]
>
> > > %
> > > "To be fair, there are uses for XML. On Halloween, for example."
> > >
> > >     - Johannes Schindelin, on git@vger.kernel.org
> > > %
> > 
> > yeah, to show kids xml print outs as an answer to "trick or treat!".
> > Can save on candies;)
> 
> Err, I think Dscho meant here that XML is so *scary*... Isn't it?

XML can be scary. Somebody on usenet once said something like: "XML is just a skeleton; if you see a skeleton walking around, wouldn't you be scared?"

What is really scary, though, is how many people really believe that just using XML will magically solve all problems of this world. They really believe that.

Ciao, Dscho