Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 29, 2009, 18:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20091129183217.GB21520@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911291121300.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > > > Yes, as a matter of fact, I do work on 10 different computers. I'm sorry 
> > > > that you find managing your configuration so challenging. But if you 
> > > > don't use the configuration variable, then your own personal setup is 
> > > > totally irrelevant.
> > > 
> > > As I just demonstrated, this is a false statement.
> > 
> > I must have missed where you demonstrated it.
> 
> Usually, my mails are minimal, and I do not write as many mails as I 
> used to anymore, so it is hard to miss what I am saying.
> 
> For your benefit: both Junio and me talked about experts helping users.  
> Even if I do not use the config options, I am affected.  And it does hurt.

A point which I adressed in my numbered point (2) in the mail you are quoting above. But you didn't bother to quote that part.

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> > When the number of "git grep" crash fatalities rises above zero, maybe 
> > this line of reasoning will be relevant.
> 
> Sure.  Let's wait for the first crash fatality, and only react then.  No 
> need to think ahead.

You missed my point. My point is that your analogy had many characteristics that do not apply to this situation. You are comparing a situation where somebody's preference (to drive on the left side or the right side) is weighed against a system where everyone needs to follow the same rule, or people will die in large numbers. The actual situation at hand is a git grep configuration variable. I am weighing the preference of people who use git every day and want it to work in a certain way against the possibility that somebody helping them will be slightly inconvenienced or surprised. Something that will happen much less frequently than the person actually _using_ git, and something which has much smaller negative consequences than people dying.

> That's it.  I don't think that I want to participate in this kind of 
> discussion anymore,

Fine. I have made my point over and over, and not once have you responded to it directly, so I also feel this is going nowhere.

-Peff