Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2013, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20130410211824.GC27070@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0k-YJwT__8Tc4B4WXq30ij3i8_d6qwyOCP5RLsKF9eazQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>                                My point is that we should have "sane"
> defaults, and fine-grained configurability so that uses who disagree
> can maintain their own configs.

I don't agree with this principle. I like a tool that behaves sanely with little work and that is flexible enough to do hard things when that's needed. Neither of those attributes implies configurability, except in those unfortunate cases where "behaving sanely with little work on the user's part" has to involve a different behavior from person to person.

When people disagree about sane defaults, that's a sign that we didn't understand the problem well. Often more thinking can lead to a simpler answer.

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