From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:07:40 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] status: compare against both upstream and push branch by default Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Harald Nordgren writes: >> > This is the point behind this: To ease users into triangular thinking. >> > We should not assume our users are git experts, many of my them never >> > read the git docs. >> >> So instead we should assume that they start from mental model that >> was destroyed by use of GitHub? The need to do so somehow makes it >> smell like a sad world. > > I think it's better to accept the world as it is rather than engaging > in wishful thinking :) At least you could push whatever is encouraging the use of "-u" to break their mental model into also suggesting to set the necessary configuration, which would make _them_ internally consistent, without breaking existing users (and without bothering me).