# Release Notes wrongly identify git as a self-learning program

2 messages from 2023-06-02 to 2023-06-02. Participants: Tim Tassonis, Kristoffer Haugsbakk.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/59826

## Tim Tassonis, 2023-06-02 12:08

Subject: Release Notes wrongly identify git as a self-learning program
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Hi all

When checking the release notes of Git v2.4, I stumbled upon various 
hilariously stupid entries like:

* "git format-patch" learned to write...
* "git clone" from an empty repository learned to propagate ...
* "git send-email" learned to giv

and even:

* "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learns a new...
* The credential subsystem learns


I can maybe live with:

* "git push" has been taught
* A few subcommands have been taught

Is this some sort of joke, or AI/chat-gpt bandwagonin?

To my knowledge, git 2.41 still is a piece of software written and 
enhanced by human beings and neither is taught something, let alone even 
"learned" or is "learning" something.

Why on earth is git now being described as some sort of sentient, 
self-optimizing being?

Are technical git Release Notes now being written some kind of marketing 
people?

Bye
Tim



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## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2023-06-02 12:56

Subject: Re: Release Notes wrongly identify git as a self-learning program
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Hi

This is just the commit messsge jargon. :) it's been like this for years.

Long before ChatGPT.
-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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