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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 18:23:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536428f7796e0_200c12912f03@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2F8B2EEED0594446A6FCF771BBEDFB56@PhilipOakley>

Philip Oakley wrote:
> From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> > So? No defaults can please absolutely everyone, the best anybody can
> > do is try to please the majority of people, and merging
> > fast-forwards only does that.
> 
> That assumes that doing something is better than doing nothing,

When doing something is better for the vast majority of people, that's
what should be done by default, unless the results are catastrophic for
the minority.

Since doing something is not catastrophic to the minority, it follows
that the default should be to do something.

It's a simple as that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-02 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 15:37 Pull is Mostly Evil Marc Branchaud
2014-05-02 15:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 16:05   ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 19:05     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:34       ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 22:53         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-03 20:24           ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 23:23         ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-05-03 11:24           ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-03 11:30             ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 19:31   ` David Lang
2014-05-02 19:37     ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 19:11   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 20:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 20:58       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 21:48     ` Jeff King
2014-05-02 21:55       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:36         ` Jeff King
2014-05-02 23:27           ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03  2:18       ` David Kastrup
2014-05-06 22:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 22:19         ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03  7:56   ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-03  8:17     ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03  9:04       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03  9:56         ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04  4:30           ` David Lang
2014-05-04  4:38             ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04  6:13               ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04  6:50               ` James Denholm
2014-05-04  7:48                 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04  9:51                 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 10:37                   ` James Denholm
2014-05-04 11:02                     ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03  9:26     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 22:09       ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04  3:08         ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04  7:49           ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 10:17             ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 19:09               ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 21:13                 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-05  5:44                   ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-05  5:47                     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 22:37     ` Max Kirillov
2014-05-03 10:00   ` John Szakmeister
2014-05-05 15:39     ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-05 18:15       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:12 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-09 19:49 ` Marc Branchaud

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