From: Morgan Schweers <mschweers@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:31:12 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <b8464fde050428013144672950@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504271722260.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

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