From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:56:47 GMT
Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)
Message-ID: <20080625135647.wiohgih5hc0scgw0@intranet.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <willow-jeske-01l5xqJDFEDjCftd>



Quoting David Jeske <jeske@google.com>:

> - add "checkout" to the git-gui history right-click menu, and make the
> danger of
> "reset --hard" more obvious and require a confirmation dialog (the gui
> equivilant of -f)

Is that really necessary?  The way it works now, when I choose "reset  
foo branch to here", a dialog prompts me to pick from the three reset  
modes, with 'Mixed' being the default. So I'd have to explicitly pick  
'Hard', which has a message "discards ALL local changes" right next to  
it.  If people are so conditioned to ignore that, I doubt it'll take  
very long for them to be conditioned to just automatically confirm the  
confirmation dialog.

The same applies to the command line as well I guess - if having to  
manually type "--hard" does not make one stop and think about what  
they are doing, I can hardly see how "--hard --force" would do any  
better.

Cheers.
-- 
Jing Xue