Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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> Sergey Organov wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Sergey Organov wrote:
>> >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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>> >> > 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"?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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.
Well, if you've replied to them, then I'm sorry.
To me your particular example:
>>> Similarly checking out a commit and then cherry-picking a sequence
>>> of commits while resolving conflicts becomes "rebasing".
remains controversial; concepts or no concepts.
Thanks,
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Sergey Organov