Re: git revert with partial commit.

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2023, 00:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s32nLHCZmWQ3V5sBL6WZA9qqWXi86c+=Bxt+GQ8fPmFfQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87wn2qg7du.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 1:39 AM Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

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> > If the user wants to do it, the tool should help him do it, not
> > pontificate about what is heretic.
> >
> > The user is still going to do it, like with a rebase plugin on
> > Mercurial, or with `git filter-branch` and then merge the result. All
> > the tool is achieving is being annoying by not helping the user.
>
> Yep, and I'm worried by such trends in Git as well. Looks like growing
> influence of software development culture where the user is not
> considered to be intelligent enough to make proper decisions by himself,
> and needs to be thoroughly guided by the tool (designers) all the time.

Which ironically goes against the philosophy of the original author of Git:

> No project is more important than the users of the project. -- Linus Torvalds

-- 
Felipe Contreras