From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
<git@vger.kernel.org>, "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 12:24:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8F49068316F64566954C5D037C512704@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 536428f7796e0_200c12912f03@nysa.notmuch
From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 12:23 AM
> 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.
>
That 'Since' and 'it follows' are where we have a diverging
understanding about the solution approach...
> It's a simple as that.
... which makes it not quite as simple as that ;-) [evidence: the
ongoing dialog among all and sundry]
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras
> --
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-03 11:24 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
2014-05-03 11:24 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
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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