Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2008, 10:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20080720192042.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807181356010.3932@eeepc-johanness>

Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:

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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
>
>> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> > This needs to be merged to master iff/when merge-theirs gets merged, 
>> > but I do not think this series is widely supported, so both are on 
>> > hold.
>> 
>> Why do you say it is not widely supported?  I may be wrong but I think 
>> you developed these patches after somebody from the mailing list asked 
>> for this feature.
>
> Asking for a feature, and then not doing a single thing to defend why it 
> makes sense, of a single person, who does not even speak up now, does not 
> count for "wide support".

For the record, I was not the one who asked for such a feature.

It seems that the conclusion of the discussion is that "theirs" promotes a bad workflow, and I am happy with that.

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Nanako Shiraishi
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