On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
quoted text
> 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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