Re: Re: [PATCH] teach the user to be nice to git and let him say please sometimes

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2013, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Cj1pf1YqWLq1Hbgx9cDL96Kst9JkrcwwF8ELXU5BASLg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130513133035.GA3561@book-mint>

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:

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>> > +       if (impolite_counter > 10)
>> > +               die("Error: Learn some manners, say please some time!");
>> > +       if (polite_counter > 10)
>> > +               die("Error: Too many please! I don't believe you.");
>>
>> NAK. If we truly care, we need better AI here!
>
> I agree but this patches goal was to implement the basic politeness
> infrastructure. We planned to add more features, like inter-repository
> jealousy, later. For inter-repository jealousy git would complain if you
> worked more with one repository than others you cloned and you'd for
> example sometimes need a double please to satisfy it.

I'm still not happy with this direction. I propose we rewrite C Git in Lisp first as a preparation step for git-please improvements. We could drop support for all platforms but Lisp Machine along the way. That would make all other Git implementations jealous. -- Duy