From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>,
Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>,
Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git revert with partial commit.
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:20:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt3jbodw.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMP44s32nLHCZmWQ3V5sBL6WZA9qqWXi86c+=Bxt+GQ8fPmFfQ@mail.gmail.com
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 1:39 AM Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > If the user wants to do it, the tool should help him do it, not
>> > pontificate about what is heretic.
>> > The user is still going to do it, like with a rebase plugin on
>> > Mercurial, or with `git filter-branch` and then merge the result.
>> > All the tool is achieving is being annoying by not helping the
>> > user.
>> Yep, and I'm worried by such trends in Git as well. Looks like
>> growing influence of software development culture where the user is
>> not considered to be intelligent enough to make proper decisions by
>> himself, and needs to be thoroughly guided by the tool (designers)
>> all the time.
>
> Which ironically goes against the philosophy of the original author of
> Git:
>
>> No project is more important than the users of the project.
>> -- Linus Torvalds
I rather bother about too much care for the users in the aforementioned
cases, similar to the way overly cautious mother cares about her
children, all this being absolutely well-intentioned.
The problem with such care is that it's inefficient to drive nails in
with a hand hammer in a soft wrapping, though it's admittedly less
dangerous for ones fingers.
Overall, when using a tool, I prefer to feel myself a grown-up human
being responsible for my own actions, rather than a child under intense
guidance and excessive protection. I'm thankful for proper safety
measures, but I want potentially unsafe action to be performed
nevertheless when I actually mean it, instead of lengthy display of
rhetorics about why I should not have had even attempted it in the first
place.
--
Sergey Organov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-07 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-02 9:17 git revert with partial commit Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-02 14:16 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2023-04-03 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-04 0:28 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-03 18:29 ` Phillip Susi
2023-04-04 0:20 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-04 0:37 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-04 15:50 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-04 16:19 ` Chris Torek
2023-04-04 17:21 ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-04 18:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-04 19:40 ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-04 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-04 21:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-05 6:39 ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-07 0:24 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-07 17:20 ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2023-04-06 15:48 ` Phillip Susi
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