From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 23:23:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil
Message-ID: <536428f7796e0_200c12912f03@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <2F8B2EEED0594446A6FCF771BBEDFB56@PhilipOakley>

Philip Oakley wrote:
> From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> > So? No defaults can please absolutely everyone, the best anybody can
> > do is try to please the majority of people, and merging
> > fast-forwards only does that.
> 
> That assumes that doing something is better than doing nothing,

When doing something is better for the vast majority of people, that's
what should be done by default, unless the results are catastrophic for
the minority.

Since doing something is not catastrophic to the minority, it follows
that the default should be to do something.

It's a simple as that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras