1 The dilemma of being correct
3 So I am opinionated. No news there. The problem of being opinionated, though,
4 is that people do not take you seriously even if you are correct.
6 For example, I vividly remember having had concerns about the Git wrapper
7 being linked to <a href=http://curl.haxx.se/>cURL</a>, and I vividly remember
8 that our maintainer did not have such concerns and took Daniel's patch. I could
9 not find proof of my public comment quickly enough to add a link here, though.
11 Alas, there are serious problems with being correct:
14 <li>If you're correct, you waste a lot of time trying to convince people (but
15 they ignore you nevertheless),
16 <li>Other people are regularly p*ssed off, especially when they find out
17 (or even worse, when it is pointed out to them) that they were wrong, and
18 <li>You can buy _nothing_ for having been correct.
21 It is a lose-lose situation.
23 In the current context, I am pretty certain that the rev cache and the pack
24 index are so similar in nature that we'll find quite a few issues that we had
25 with one repeated with the other.
27 As I _hate_ losing time over a discussion others try to "win" -- which
28 invariably means that they refuse to be convinced of anything disagreeing with
29 their opinion :-) -- I will just shut up, and probably have one or two odd
30 feelings when it turns out I was right.