Re:Two Commits and the User Experience of Git
by jasode on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:39PM
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>This is ad-hominem and smug.
As counterpoint, I didn't interpret it that way. The tone wasn't shaming a programmer for accidentally screwing up (e.g. It was Michael who deleted everything with UNIX command "rm -rf /* ").
Instead, today's blog was extending the conversation of the message he sent 3 months ago[1] and he had already put Junio Hamano's name in that post.
If you're trying to trace the intellectual history and rationale for why things were done a certain way, attaching a name to it is very common and it does not mean malicious intent.
I didn't see any ad-hominem attacks in the post but I can only guess that the repetition of "Hamano" in the text rubs people the wrong way.
As counterpoint, I didn't interpret it that way. The tone wasn't shaming a programmer for accidentally screwing up (e.g. It was Michael who deleted everything with UNIX command "rm -rf /* ").
Instead, today's blog was extending the conversation of the message he sent 3 months ago[1] and he had already put Junio Hamano's name in that post.
If you're trying to trace the intellectual history and rationale for why things were done a certain way, attaching a name to it is very common and it does not mean malicious intent.
I didn't see any ad-hominem attacks in the post but I can only guess that the repetition of "Hamano" in the text rubs people the wrong way.
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/EA993AC0-022C-423D-ABD7-4747FA0...