From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:51:28 GMT
Subject: Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation
Message-ID: <60ef404076d18_9578a2089a@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <874kcwemhn.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> > Sergey Organov wrote:
> >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> >> > Compound operations soon become basic operations in the mind of an
> >> > expert.
> >> >
> >> > Lifting your feet, and then landing your feet might be basic operations
> >> > when you are 1 yo, but soon enough they become "walking".
> >> 
> >> [caveat: please don't take the rest of this post too seriously]
> >> 
> >> Yeah, using another name for a compound is yet another option indeed.
> >> "git cretching"?
> >> 
> >> > Similarly checking out a commit and then cherry-picking a sequence of
> >> > commits while resolving conflicts becomes "rebasing".
> >> 
> >> This is very questionable example. Please don't let me even start on
> >> this.
> >
> > You don't need to validate the concept, but chunking is an established
> > concept in cognitive pshychology [1]. It's how humans learn (and
> > possibly machines too).
> 
> The urdge to dive into the muddy waters of psychology to support your
> example, where pure logic should probably have sufficed, makes the
> example only even more suspect.

Suspect to you, maybe, not to anyone who works in the teaching industry,
where this concept is well understood and accepted.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras