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Re: Re* Regulator updates for 3.3

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jan 11, 2012, 16:23 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> What makes me uneasy about the idea of running the editor by default is
> that many people still use Git as a better CVS/SVN. Their workflow is to
> build randomly on their 'master', attempt to push and get rejected, pull
> only so that they can push out, and then push the merge result out.

Sure. And I don't think we can do much about it. They'll either set the legacy flag, or they'll just exit the editor without adding anything useful (if you come from a CVS background in particular, you probably never learnt to do good commit logs anyway).

So it will be a bit more work for the bad workflow, I agree - although if it really irritates people, they can just set that GIT_MERGE_LEGACY in their .bashrc files or something. But we can *hope* that even those people might sometimes actually talk about what/why they are doing things, or maybe even learn about that whole "distributed" thing.

I agree that is unlikely to ever happen, though. It's more likely that they will change their aliases so that their "update" command just adds the --no-edit flag. Regardless, it doesn't sound *too* onerous to work around.

Patch looks good to me. I would personally have compared "st_mode" instead of (or in addition to) "st_rdev", but I don't think it matters all that much.

                                 Linus
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Message 9 of 20 in “Re: Regulator updates for 3.3”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJan 10, 2012
  2. Mark BrownJan 10, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2012
  4. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2012
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2012
  7. Re* Regulator updates for 3.3Junio C Hamano, Jan 11, 2012
  8. Phil HordJan 11, 2012
  9. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2012
  10. Pete HarlanJan 16, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2012
  12. Martin FickJan 16, 2012
  13. Pete HarlanJan 17, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2012
  15. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2012
  16. Paul GortmakerJan 11, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2012
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 13, 2012
  19. Linus TorvaldsJan 13, 2012
  20. Miles BaderJan 17, 2012

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