From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Official Git Homepage change? Re: git-scm.com Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:49:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtzedmeqh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080726015314.GU32184@machine.or.cz> <20080726020951.GV32184@machine.or.cz> <7v4p6dnv5k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , Scott Chacon , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 26 06:51:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KMbkD-0000vM-Em for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:51:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751560AbYGZEt7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751453AbYGZEt7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:59 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:61282 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751393AbYGZEt6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:58 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699D43CF2B; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CA57A3CF2A; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:28:47 +0200 (CEST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4A05F3F0-5ACE-11DD-A3F2-3113EBD4C077-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> It's also somewhat interesting to observe that several people I have >> never heard of in the git circle are simultaneously doing new git books, >> apparently never asking for much technical advice from core git people, >> by the way. > > FWIW my criticism in the same direction was met with ridicule, which does > not let me expect much of them. Oh, mine was not a criticism but was just an observation. Maybe the folks we consider as "git community members" are either too narrow, or too detached from the "real user community", and it could be that git books are better written without us. I am not being sarcastic nor sardonic; we may simply be too close to git, we may have been breathing git for too long, and what feels the most natural thing to be taught first for us may not be the best first thing to be taught to the new people (even though they may eventually grow to think like we do when they become proficient enough).