Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On 5/3/12 14:09 , Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Michael Witten<mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> (Note, though, that Junio has done a laudable job of keeping the >>> whole experiment going strong). >> >> You are giving me too much credit, and at the same time insulting the >> people who polished Git enough to suit their workflow. To them, the tool >> has past "experiment" stage long time ago. They found what was lacking >> and what would help the need in their workflow. I just have helped them >> shape their ideas into a coherent whole. >> >> That does not mean there is nothing missing, still appears experimental, >> or inconsistent in the parts of the system that these people do not use >> nor care about, and when you bring in people coming from different >> background, they will notice the behaviour or default that do not match >> their expectation.... > > ... The motivation to > change it would be to make it easier for the next person. That is how the workflow support elements that were originally missing like reflogs, stashes, tracking branches, etc. all came to exist. Making it easier for the next person is why we had a large discussion on the default behaviour of unconfigured push andthe follow-up implementation of the "simple" push behaviour. It is a good example that community members are willing to help new person even at the expense of inconvenience to old timers. What does _not_ happen is to chase down people who whined and left without giving us something concrete enough to base design of new workflow support elements, but the community cannot police the behaviour of those who come, whine and then leave, so... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html