On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

quoted

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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I do not like the implication that Git eats trees.

I still like the picture, though it can hurt environmentalists.

It's not just environmentalists.  If I put myself in the shoes of a Git
newbie, I would get the impression that Git eats my trees, i.e. destroys
them.

Very good first impression.

Not,
Dscho

I was a bit concerned about using the little guy too, but I've gotten
overall very good feedback about him - people seem to like him.  I
think it's good to have a little bit of illustration on a page.
However, as for your concerns, I think a) it's really hard to argue
that environmentalists would actually care what that thing is doing
and b) a newbie to Git will have no idea what a 'tree' is - that is
really only a sort of inside joke.  You would have to have been using
git for a good amount of time to know that 'eating a tree' would be a
bad thing.  That's why I've been telling people that he's _storing_
trees and that you don't want to be around when he 'gc --prune's :)

Scott "not top-posting" Chacon