From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 11:24:24 GMT Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil Message-ID: <8F49068316F64566954C5D037C512704@PhilipOakley> In-Reply-To: <536428f7796e0_200c12912f03@nysa.notmuch> From: "Felipe Contreras" Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 12:23 AM > Philip Oakley wrote: >> From: "Felipe Contreras" >> > 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