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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
Cc: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail•com>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] remote-hg: more improvements
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:24:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61l8hubw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mweku2pt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 11:30:38 +0200")

David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org> writes:

> Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail•com> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation. I think it underlines well the A)
>> technical issues (quality commits) and the B) social issues (ability
>> to communicate in a friendly way & respond constructively), which we
>> discovered are both *essential* for contributing to git.
>
> I'm not entirely convinced of that: there is something akin to drop-dead
> gorgeous code: code that is so well done that it would not matter with
> regard to its maintenance whether or not its author dropped dead because
> it's both done well as well as documented in a manner where the original
> author could not offer significant additional help.

I would have to say that you are living in a fantasy land.  During
the entire life of Git, I do not think I ever saw such a code that
is perfect from the get-go and did not require any maintenance to
adjust to the changing time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-04  2:16 [PATCH 0/4] remote-hg: more improvements Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04  2:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] remote-hg: add more tests Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04  9:40   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-05-04  2:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] t: remote-hg: add file operation tests Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04  2:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] t: remote-hg: trivial cleanups and fixes Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04  2:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] remote-hg: add support for hg v3.0 Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 18:12 ` [PATCH 0/4] remote-hg: more improvements Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 19:01   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 20:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 20:37       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 23:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08  1:09           ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-08  1:34             ` James Denholm
2014-05-08 20:15               ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-11 19:33             ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-12 12:19               ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-12 19:50               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-12 20:19                 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-12 20:40                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-12 22:21                     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-14  9:12                 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-14  9:30                   ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14  9:36                     ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-14  9:55                       ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 12:11                         ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-14 12:50                           ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 13:13                             ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-14 13:51                               ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 16:06                                 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-05-14 20:19                                   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-14 20:58                                     ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 21:39                                       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-14 22:12                                         ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 22:30                                           ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-15  6:03                                             ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 22:24                     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-14 22:30                       ` David Kastrup
2014-05-14 22:34                         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08  0:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08  1:36     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-08 18:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 19:56         ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-08 22:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 22:42             ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-08 23:06               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 23:39                 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09  0:23                   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 17:16                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-09 17:59                     ` Felipe Contreras

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