On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 05:12:04PM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: > git-fc is a fork of Junio Hamano's git. [...] > Take for example the "staging area", a term literally > everyone agrees [1] is superior to "the index". Not just people from the > teaching industry, but even the Pro Git book (which isn't endorsed by > Junio), countless tutorials, and even Git developers themselves. Not one > Git developer is against the term... except Junio. [...] > Even Linus Torvalds argued for a `git update` command that does a > fast-forward by default [2]: [...] > Junio once again chose to ignore all the proposals to improve > `git pull`. [...] > Junio himself shot the door to any sort of collaboration, since he > permanently banned me from the project with no warning and no recourse > whatsoever for simply daring to disagree with him [5]. > > After 15 years of contributions, he didn't even pretend to conduct a > fair process in which I would receive a warning and an opportunity to > defend myself. I received **nothing**. Not even a single reply notifying > me that they (the Git PLC) wouldn't respond to me anymore: I patiently > waited several days for a reply until I realized it was never going to > come. They just sent a singe email notifying me of the permanent ban, > ignored my requests for clarification, and that was that. [...] > [5] > https://felipec.wordpress.com/2023/05/16/my-ban-from-the-git-project-the-defense-i-was-denied/ [...]
For completeness, there's the link to a message which can be served as an entry point to a different view on these matters which is also present in the Git developers' community [7]. I should note that I do not have a strong opinion on this situation (or at least I do not have an opinion I'd like to share) - merely trying to make it possible to be able to see a more complete picture for those who finds it interesting. 7. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20230511012558.ga1464...@coredump.intra.peff.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/20230523142533.7jnpr6dcc46itm7u%40carbon.
