On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > It is not an unreasonable expectation to expect experience with git. > > We don't require git for anything in the GNU project, let alone being > able to use it to contribute a change. You can get away happily > without learning any git commands and still be able to contribute to > the GNU project. Just like being fluent in English is not an > requirement, it is unreasonable to expect that being fluent in git > magic is mandatory.
You need to know some C to contribute to a package written in C. Similarly, I think it's reasonable to expect knowledge of some git to explore the history of a package using git. That's different from being fluent in git magic, but in general greater fluency with any tool will allow using it to better effect. -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected]
