[jemfinch]

Can you clarify how those "key lines" substantively change the situation? It's not clear to me how either of them justify "You're a moron."

[bmelton]

I think the point is, and forgive the harshness of this, but the person to whom Linus called a moron was kind of being a moron.

Linus explained why he wouldn't accept pull requests from Github, due purely to the formatting of the commit log, and that guy starts insisting he do it because it's only a three line patch, basically ignoring everything that Linus had said.

Regardless the length of the patch, it doesn't alter the commit formatting.

I personally don't think I'd have ever resorted to calling someone a moron unless I personally knew them, but I very distinctly believed that guy to either missing the point, or trolling.