On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:19:35PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote: > No matter how this plays out, let's please make very sure to provide > sufficient user documentation so that those of us who have to explain > the differences to users have a decent reference. Even now, explaining > rebase vs. merge is difficult enough for people new to git to choose > which to use when (sometimes pummeling is involved to get the point > across 😉 ), even though it should be intuitive to most of us. I am > predicting that adding this capability is going to further confuse the > *new* user community a little. Entirely out of enlighted > self-interest, I am offering to help document > (edits/contribution//whatever) this once we get to that point in > development. I agree. I have a feeling that it may take a while for this to play out. This has been on my mind for a while and think there will be some more discussion before anything gets started. Carl > Something else to consider is how (or if) this capability is going to > be presented in front-ends and in Cloud services. GitK is a given, of > course. I'm still impatiently waiting for worktree support from some > other front-ends. It all takes time. :) > Cheers, > Randall > > -- Brief whoami: NonStop&UNIX developer since approximately UNIX(421664400)/NonStop(211288444200000000) > -- In my real life, I talk too much.
