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Re: [RFC/PATCH] push: introduce implicit push

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2013, 16:39 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:59 AM, John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> So the question is "what is the natural extension of the current
> behaviour?", and the answer for me is "it's completely new", but others
> have different (and conflicting) internal models that give different
> answers.

I don't think this does anybody any service. If the current behavior is wrong, and if users all over the Internet is any indication, it is; we do not want to continue such bad behavior. If the new functionality has a different behavior, it only makes sense to change the old behavior to make it consistent.

Perpetuating bad behavior choices only hurt the users, we need to start thinking how to make git more user friendly, not worry too much about keep doing what we did five years ago.

Sure, we should not break user expectations from one day to the next, but that doesn't mean we can't change anything ever.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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  1. push: introduce implicit pushRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 12, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 13, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2013
  5. Jakub NarębskiApr 14, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 14, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  8. Johannes SixtApr 15, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  10. John KeepingApr 15, 2013
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 15, 2013
  12. John KeepingApr 15, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 15, 2013
  15. John KeepingApr 15, 2013
  16. Felipe ContrerasApr 15, 2013
  17. John KeepingApr 15, 2013
  18. Felipe ContrerasApr 15, 2013
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 15, 2013
  20. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013
  21. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013

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