Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750989AbVJ2VBv (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:01:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbVJ2VBv (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:01:51 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:12734 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750989AbVJ2VBu (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:01:50 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nicolas Pitre cc: lkml Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20051029182228.GA14495@havoc.gtf.org> <20051029121454.5d27aecb.akpm@osdl.org> <4363CB60.2000201@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1309 Lines: 30 On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Since GIT is real free software that even purists may use without fear, > this downside is certainly not as critical as it was in the BK days. I don't think that's the problem. It's the learning curve. I don't think git is that hard to use (certainly not if you just follow somebody elses tree and occasionally do a "git bisect"), but git _is_ different. And if you're not a developer, or even if you are, and you're just somebody who has alway sjust used CVS, then something like "patch" is simply to understand what it's doing, with basically no abstractions anywhere. Compared to tar-files + patches, git has a _lot_ of abstract things going on that you have to get used to before you aren't intimidated by it. And the thing is, the most important bug-reports often come from people who aren't necessarily developers - because they are the ones that see a bug that none of the developers saw.. So making it easy for people like that to test a few different versions is probably important. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/