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I think he's comparing the journal to the tool (harder to change, impacts everyone) and the shelf to the problem that only impacts a few organizations but actua
by ric2b 7y ago
I think he's comparing the journal to the tool (harder to change, impacts everyone) and the shelf to the problem that only impacts a few organizations but actually a lot of people because those organizations are so large.
- comex 7y agoI guess that makes sense. But if that's the analogy, there's a significant difference between the situations. In that example, there was nothing inherently wrong with the journal's size, other than it not matching Bell Labs' arbitrary choice of shelf layout. Git, on the other hand, would be inherently a better tool if it had better performance on large repos (without sacrificing its suitability for small repos).