From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:16:13 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807200113440.3305@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6l3jbm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Yes, I agree, if all strategies fail, it is dubitable that we find a 
> > metric that will always find the "best" one.  But if one fails and the 
> > next one does not, it is obvious what is correct.
> 
> Not at all.  Imagine the case where one of them is either ours or 
> theirs.

But then it is not the _default_ at all!

It is what the _user_ _asked_ for.

So this is what the user gets.

With Git, the user is not ignored (like GNOME does, to "help" the user).  
With Git, the user _gets_ what she asked for, even if the question does 
not make sense.

Ciao,
Dscho