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Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] branch: advise the user to checkout a different branch before deleting

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Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2020, 12:09 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:28 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
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> My own feeling is that this level of hand-holding is unnecessary, at
> least until we a discover a good number of real-world cases in which
> people are baffled by how to deal with this situation. Adding the
> advice seems simple on the surface, but every new piece of advice
> means having to add yet another configuration variable, writing more
> code, more tests, and more documentation, and it needs to be
> maintained for the life of the project. So what seems simple at first
> glance, can end up being costly in terms of developer resources. For a
> bit of advice which doesn't seem to be needed by anyone (yet), all
> that effort seem unwarranted. Thus, my preference is to see the patch
> dropped.
That's Ok. We can drop it.

Thanks, Heba

Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 18 of 18 in “[Outreachy] [RFC] branch: advise the user to checkout a different branch before deleting”
  1. 0/1 [Outreachy] [RFC] branch: advise the user to checkout a different branch before deletingHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Jan 2, 2020
  2. 1/1 branch: advise the user to checkout a different branch before deletingHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Jan 2, 2020
  3. Eric SunshineJan 2, 2020
  4. Heba WalyJan 6, 2020
  5. 0/1 [Outreachy] [RFC] branch: advise the user to checkout a different branch before deletingHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2020
  6. 1/1 branch: advise the user to checkout a different branch before deletingHeba Waly via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2020
  7. Eric SunshineJan 7, 2020
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2020
  9. Emily ShafferJan 8, 2020
  10. Eric SunshineJan 8, 2020
  11. Heba WalyJan 8, 2020
  12. Eric SunshineJan 8, 2020
  13. Heba WalyJan 8, 2020
  14. Johannes SchindelinJan 8, 2020
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2020
  16. Heba WalyJan 10, 2020
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2020
  18. Heba WalyJan 10, 2020

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