I want to apologize for the recent thread entitled "git on MacOSX and
files with decomposed utf-8 file names". I also want to try and
explain myself a little. I realize I was wrong in my original post,
which was motivated out of offense at having my OS of choice insulted
for a design decision. My original goal was to try and get people to
understand that both approaches (HFS+ vs basically every other
filesystem) are valid, and they accomplish different goals.
Unfortunately, my argument seems to have been completely lost in the
noise, and everybody ended up with some idea of what my argument was
that was completely invalid. Given the prevalence of this mistaken
idea, I am forced to admit I must have been at fault in describing my
viewpoint, but the fact still stands that most of what everybody was
arguing against was not, in fact, my viewpoint.
I am a stubborn man, as I believe most of you are. When someone argues
against a mistakenly-attributed viewpoint, I feel compelled to correct
their belief as to what my viewpoint really is. I realize this is
pretty much hopeless, and I only served to clutter the list. However,
the same can be said about most of the replies to me.
Eventually I realized my mistake, and attempted to steer the thread
towards discussion on potential solutions. Unfortunately, nobody
seemed to want to follow me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, people
had already invested too much into telling me why I was wrong. But I
do think it was a missed opportunity to get some real work done. And
no, I was not, nor was I ever, asking people to write code for me. I
was asking for a discussion on potential solutions, since you all know
far more than I do about how git works, and thus you are much better
suited towards evaluating potential solutions than I am. I'm sorry if
I did not make my desires clear enough.
Despite what you may think, I did learn things in that thread. I
sincerely hope this situation won't preclude my involvement in the git
project and community in the future. I've only been using git a short
time but I've learned a lot in that time, and I'd like to help the
project to succeed.
So once again, I am very sorry for what I have caused here.
-Kevin Ballard
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Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kevin@sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
