From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:40:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1331281886-11667-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1331288715.21444.38.camel@beez.lab.cmartin.tk> <4F5A4C45.7070406@xiplink.com> <4F5AF1A8.4050604@alum.mit.edu> <4F5E12A5.6030701@xiplink.com> <20120312183725.GA2187@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vfwddskon.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4F5E598A.5020407@xiplink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Michael Haggerty , Carlos =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Nieto , git@vger.kernel.org To: Marc Branchaud X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 13 10:41:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7ODv-0007zT-Ak for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:40:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760192Ab2CMJkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:40:51 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:34068 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760171Ab2CMJku (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:40:50 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2D9aFpb020615 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:36:15 +0100 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S7ODI-000444-Ll; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:40:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4F5E598A.5020407@xiplink.com> (Marc Branchaud's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:16:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:36:16 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q2D9aFpb020615 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1332236179.45378@pV/C4giC3mg1hUlQaC568Q Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Marc Branchaud writes: >> Obviously, "nothing" is the least-damage option, and looking at how >> even people on this list cannot decide between current and upstream, >> I actually am very tempted to suggest it as the new default. > > There's a lot of merit to that. If nothing else, it'd get new users to learn > at least a little bit about git. I wouldn't be opposed to pushing nothing by > default. That would imply teching people what a branch is before teaching them very basic workflows with push and pull. If Git goes this route, I'll have to consider Mercurial instead of Git to teach revision control to my students ;-). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/