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Re: git push

From
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 25, 2009, 10:06 UTC
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<43d8ce650902250206j7f8411a4p5d256e0a4da7fe49@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/2/25 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2009/2/25 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>>
>>> Please don't talk about changing the default without thinking the
>>> ramifications through.
>>
>> Talking about doesn't harm anything.  I don't really get why you're a
>> bit hostile.
>
> I am not saying any discussion about the defaults is bad.
>
> But these topics add flames from uninformed people we have to douse early
> to the list traffic, and make it harder to find useful topics by degrading
> S/N ratio.

You know, there might be a reason why you get lots of "uninformed people" complaining about the defaults. Distinguishing the flames shouldn't be your first instinct :)

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> In other words, it certainly harms a lot.
>
> I just want people to think twice (or more) if the change you are going to
> propose is worthwhile before imposing that cost to everybody.  A couple of
> changes around "git push" scheduled for 1.7.0 are default changes, and it
> was worthwhile to discuss about them, but I do not think this one deserves
> the human bandwidth, especially we already had discussion on it recently
> and we have a reasonable configuration mechanism for doing what you want
> already.
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Message 11 of 17 in “git push”
  1. John TapsellFeb 25, 2009
  2. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2009
  4. John TapsellFeb 25, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2009
  6. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2009
  8. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2009
  9. John TapsellFeb 25, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2009
  11. John TapsellFeb 25, 2009
  12. Jay SoffianFeb 25, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2009
  14. Finn Arne GangstadFeb 25, 2009
  15. Andreas EricssonMar 5, 2009
  16. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  17. Finn Arne GangstadMar 5, 2009

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