And also the corresponding reaction on Twitter:
ROFL, DHH has cajones.
@sbartholomew: @dhh the the Rails community has it relatively easy: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106 … :-)
Linus was right, though.
And DHH was wrong.
Not a fan of the way Linus handled that, though he sure did set the tone and expectations for everyone else!
i'm betting he made that mail public very deliberately, as a way of telling the world at large that as kernel dictator he would not tolerate his "staff" treating users like that.
I think a big reason it's on the public list is because it should be. Linux is Linus' baby, he has every right to yell at someone for doing pretty much anything. And in this case, it was deserved. If you're going to break the first commandment of Linux development (don't break userspace), and blame the userspace for breaking, you should be reprimanded.
So Linus must be doing something right.
When you create a new app you'll need to remove a line from the autogenerated .gitignore in order to work the way you expect.
No?
But that would be way overkilled, here, because we just speak of adding a line to the .gitignore file.
If you don't know git, .gitignore is a file you're expected to edit, you put there anything you don't want to commit in the repository.
So, once again, all the trolling is about changing a default option. Which can be changed back with one line of four characters ("/bin"), in a configuration file. Change to be made only once in the whole life of your application.