From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:11:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvn335sm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <857g8f1ugu.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2014 03:01:53 -0600")
Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> I like commands that "do the right thing". So no, this would not be
> confusing.
I _hate_ commands that think they know better than to do what they are
told. In particular when doing destructive things. And just because
_you_ like them does not mean they are not confusing.
In the long run, it is much more confusing if you come to rely on some
commands doing "the right thing" while in other cases, the actually
written thing is done.
"do the right thing" commands also tend to do the wrong thing
occasionally with potentially disastrous results when they are used in
scripts where the followup actions rely on the actual result.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-28 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 18:06 [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 1/3] wt-status: Make conflict hint message more consistent with other hints Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 23:07 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 2/3] merge: Add hints to tell users about "git merge --abort" Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:16 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 15:30 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 20:51 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 18:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 3/3] reset: Change the default behavior to use "--merge" during a merge Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 20:15 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:37 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-27 0:00 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11 4:39 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:26 ` [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-28 9:01 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 9:14 ` Charles Bailey
2014-02-28 10:11 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-02-28 14:13 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 14:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 17:26 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 17:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-01 10:32 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-01 11:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-01 16:50 ` Stephen Leake
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