From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 14:01:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed translation error in config.c file
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In-Reply-To: <CACnwZYd-hhS2w33rsQ9xR__gdnCUC8ni2ot=KqViWLNjnWFhjQ@mail.gmail.com>

Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So what should the Title be? Please i am learning this community so i
>> have to make a lot of mistakes. Pardon me.
> Allow me to say something? Forgive me if it sounds rude, as it might sound.
>
> Git community is highly technical and is about developing and
> improving Git scm tool.
>
> To be honest, I think it is not a place to learn C or how to
> contribute to open source projects.

FWIW, I do not mind explaining things to new people. Teaching new
people is how you grow the community.

I however have finite time budget for that kind of activity, and it
annoys me when I see that an earlier suggestion was apparently not
read, and a question is asked when its answer is already in the
mailbox of who is asking it, e.g.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268484

in which I had to repeat what I said in:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268335