Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2014, 11:30 UTC
Message-ID: <5364d3528eb93_14419272f03@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <8F49068316F64566954C5D037C512704@PhilipOakley>

Philip Oakley wrote:

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> From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> > 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.
> 
> ... which makes it not quite as simple as that ;-) [evidence: the 
> ongoing dialog among all and sundry]

The dialog is not simple becuase it's not easy to make `git pull` do the sensible thing. That doesn't mean `git pull` should do *nothing*, that doesn't follow from the argument above.

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Felipe Contreras