On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 08:05 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > That is because I wear multiple hats, because I try to help in > different ways, and because open source is not a battle to see whose > idea is more right, but is a cooperative process to find a better > solution together. > Thanks for helping and being kind!
> As a fellow contributor, I do not think that removing the hint that > is commented out, which is meant to be helpful to users while in > their editor and which will be removed after the editor finishes > anyway, is a useful enough example to keep the now otherwise useless > sample hook. But as the maintainer, I can see that you are still > making sincere efforts to come up with a useful example and improve > the end-user experience, and more importantly, I haven't heard from > other people what they think---the only thing I have are different > opinions from two people. That is why I am not deciding and telling > you to go find another area to hack in. > > At the same time, I found that your implementation of the idea, i.e. > removal of the commented-out hint, can be improved. With an > improved implementation of the proposed solution, it may have a > better chance to be supported by others on the list, and equally > importantly, if it turns out that other people do support what this > patch tries to do, i.e. keep the sample hook alive by replacing the > now useless examples with this one, we would have a better > implementation of it. And that is something I can help with, while > I, the maintainer, is waiting. > So, I'll improve it and of course wait for any replies. BTW, thanks for clearing off the little confusion I had. I'm not used to these multiple-hat replies from single person. Thanks for exposing me to it. > Oh, by the way, what the maintainer is waiting for is not just "me > too"s; this is not exactly a "having more people wins" democracy. Got it. -- Quote: “The most valuable person on any team is the person who makes everyone else on the team more valuable” Regards, Kaartic
