Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: May 3, 2014, 11:24 UTC
Message-ID: <8F49068316F64566954C5D037C512704@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <536428f7796e0_200c12912f03@nysa.notmuch>

From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 12:23 AM

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> 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.
>

That 'Since' and 'it follows' are where we have a diverging understanding about the solution approach...

> It's a simple as that.

... which makes it not quite as simple as that ;-) [evidence: the ongoing dialog among all and sundry]

>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
> --

Philip