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Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format

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MSMorgan Schweers <mschweers@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 28, 2005, 08:31 UTC
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Greetings,

This is off topic, but this is a great paragraph, and an incredibly concise and valuable lesson for pre-architect software developers.

On 4/27/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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>    Doing development is a lot about communication. Writing code in many
>    ways is secondary - it's much more important to try to make sure that
>    everybody knows what the goals are, because the _real_ pain in
>    development ends up being not the coding, but the much more fundamental
>    disagreements that happen when people really have totally different
>    expectations of what the end result is going to be.
[...deletia...]
>                         Linus
--  Morgan Schweers
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Message 19 of 29 in “A shortcoming of the git repo format”
  1. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
  2. C. Scott AnanianApr 27, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
  5. Dave JonesApr 27, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
  7. Jon SeymourApr 27, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisApr 27, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  11. The git repo formatBrian O'Mahoney, Apr 27, 2005
  12. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
  13. Tom LordApr 27, 2005
  14. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
  16. Paul JacksonApr 28, 2005
  17. Tom LordApr 28, 2005
  18. Ryan AndersonApr 28, 2005
  19. Morgan SchweersApr 28, 2005
  20. Barry SilvermanApr 28, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  22. David A. WheelerApr 28, 2005
  23. David LangApr 28, 2005
  24. Daniel BarkalowApr 27, 2005
  25. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
  26. Daniel BarkalowApr 28, 2005
  27. H. Peter AnvinApr 28, 2005
  28. David WoodhouseApr 28, 2005
  29. Gerhard SchrenkApr 27, 2005

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