[kqr]

If he means it in the "I have decided not to take the time to learn this" then yes, it's comforting. Otherwise it's just sad -- I'm sure there are many people who would be willing to tutor him in it in exchange for only the honour of having tutored Kernighan.

[ivalm]

i'm guessing his issue is not with git porcelain. The actually internals of git are kind of messy.