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Git v2.14.0 released

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Re: Git v2.14.0 released

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Post by david38 »

jrowley wrote: post #2

I shouldn't find this shocking, but so few feminine sounding names on the list of contributors. Bummer.

By all means, fork Git and require a minimum 50% female membership. If you are successful, more power to you.

You are actually criticizing women for how they spend their free time while claiming to help them.

What have you contributed? Where is your name on the Git commit history? Where does your name appear among the credits for outreach work?

Re: Git v2.14.0 released

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Post by jrowley »

yunyu wrote: post #4
jrowley wrote: post #2

I shouldn't find this shocking, but so few feminine sounding names on the list of contributors. Bummer.

Are you assuming people's genders?

If I assumed their genders, I would have said so few female contributors, but I don't know their genders, so I didn't say that.

Re: Git v2.14.0 released

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Post by Rusky »

david38 wrote: post #5
jrowley wrote: post #2

I shouldn't find this shocking, but so few feminine sounding names on the list of contributors. Bummer.

By all means, fork Git and require a minimum 50% female membership. If you are successful, more power to you. You are actually criticizing women for how they spend their free time while claiming to help them. What have you contributed? Where is your name on the Git commit history? Where does your name appear among the credits for outreach work?

The comment you replied to does feel somewhat disingenuous and perhaps unproductive, but it's possible they're merely lamenting the state of affairs rather than intending to criticize anyone who works (or doesn't) on Git.

Re: Git v2.14.0 released

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Post by gregmac »

> * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false" for those who do not want it.

Nice. I set this when I found out about it a few months ago, and had kind of forgotten.. Diffs were just better at not showing new functions as being inserted inside the bottom of another function. Good improvement as a default.

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