From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:41:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0 RFC] push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=_TVB9cUhLa66_om+c_wptDh+kaJH-idp1=s6O@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110214212131.GA23806@elie>

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Which was intentional on my part. If the message says what to set it
>> to, the beginner will just go 'okay' and set it to that, in which
>> case, what is the point of changing the default?
>
> Wait, why isn't that a good thing?

Because 'current' is the more sensible default behavior. If everyone
sets push.default to 'matching' because that's what the message
advises, what's the point of changing the implicit default to
'current'?

j.