Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/10] Fix various issues around removal of untracked files/directories

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2021, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh7dwwt6y.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEaJAG=pqyjCR93YUoqj06WwSqjiPENDHjgSTWwzd_C2A@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

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> So, I guess trying to distill what bugs me, I'd say: it seems to me
> that you have ignored what Junio said about taking my series, and then
> you rebased my series on top of unrelated stylistic churn, with that
> churn containing three issues that trigger ongoing misgivings I have
> about the care being put behind these refactorings, especially
> considering their value compared to the features and bugfixes we are
> getting, and you seem to fail to try to understand my changes and
> misrepresent them in the process.  I hope I'm not overreacting but
> something feels wrong to me here.

Just one thing. It is fairly easy to rebase and merge and generally muck with somebody else's changes without fully understanding it. I do that all the time ;-)

I would prefer to see us assume misunderstanding by incompetence, rather than misrepresentation by malice to further one's own agenda.