Re: git-scm.com
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Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
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- Jul 26, 2008, 04:55 UTC
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi, > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> > I do not like the implication that Git eats trees. >> >> I still like the picture, though it can hurt environmentalists. > > It's not just environmentalists. If I put myself in the shoes of a Git > newbie, I would get the impression that Git eats my trees, i.e. destroys > them. > > Very good first impression. > > Not, > Dscho > >
I was a bit concerned about using the little guy too, but I've gotten overall very good feedback about him - people seem to like him. I think it's good to have a little bit of illustration on a page. However, as for your concerns, I think a) it's really hard to argue that environmentalists would actually care what that thing is doing and b) a newbie to Git will have no idea what a 'tree' is - that is really only a sort of inside joke. You would have to have been using git for a good amount of time to know that 'eating a tree' would be a bad thing. That's why I've been telling people that he's _storing_ trees and that you don't want to be around when he 'gc --prune's :)
Scott "not top-posting" Chacon