On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What makes me uneasy about the idea of running the editor by default is
> that many people still use Git as a better CVS/SVN. Their workflow is to
> build randomly on their 'master', attempt to push and get rejected, pull
> only so that they can push out, and then push the merge result out.
Sure. And I don't think we can do much about it. They'll either set
the legacy flag, or they'll just exit the editor without adding
anything useful (if you come from a CVS background in particular, you
probably never learnt to do good commit logs anyway).
So it will be a bit more work for the bad workflow, I agree - although
if it really irritates people, they can just set that GIT_MERGE_LEGACY
in their .bashrc files or something. But we can *hope* that even those
people might sometimes actually talk about what/why they are doing
things, or maybe even learn about that whole "distributed" thing.
I agree that is unlikely to ever happen, though. It's more likely that
they will change their aliases so that their "update" command just
adds the --no-edit flag. Regardless, it doesn't sound *too* onerous to
work around.
Patch looks good to me. I would personally have compared "st_mode"
instead of (or in addition to) "st_rdev", but I don't think it matters
all that much.
Linus
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