From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:06:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git push
Message-ID: <43d8ce650902250206j7f8411a4p5d256e0a4da7fe49@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4oyi7sn4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

2009/2/25 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> 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 :)

> 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.