On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin

 wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

>

>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>> > 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

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