Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)

Okay, one more segment needs to be responded to.

Felipe Contreras wrote:

If remote-hg wasn't available for users, they would be hurt; if stash
wasn't available, if rebase --interactive didn't exist, if there was
no msysgit, if it wasn't so fast, if the object model wasn't so simple
and extensible; users would be hurt. And if users didn't have all
these, there would be less users, and if there were less users, there
would be less developers, and mercurial might have been more popular,
and most repositories you have to work on would be in mercurial, and
you might be developing mercurial right now.

Flawed logic.

A large number of users doesn't automatically imply good software with
lots of features, or even a great development community.  A great
development community leads to great software.  And great software
leads to lots of users.  Sure, there's a feedback loop pushing users
to become developers; but it doesn't start with users of vaporware,
leading to more developers joining the effort to turn that vaporware
into a great product.

Life doesn't begin with users.