Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sergey Organov wrote: >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > Sergey Organov wrote: >> >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> >> > Compound operations soon become basic operations in the mind of an >> >> > expert. >> >> > >> >> > Lifting your feet, and then landing your feet might be basic operations >> >> > when you are 1 yo, but soon enough they become "walking". >> >> >> >> [caveat: please don't take the rest of this post too seriously] >> >> >> >> Yeah, using another name for a compound is yet another option indeed. >> >> "git cretching"? >> >> >> >> >> >> This is very questionable example. Please don't let me even start on >> >> this. >> > >> > You don't need to validate the concept, but chunking is an established >> > concept in cognitive pshychology [1]. It's how humans learn (and >> > possibly machines too). >> >> The urdge to dive into the muddy waters of psychology to support your >> example, where pure logic should probably have sufficed, makes the >> example only even more suspect. > > Suspect to you, maybe, not to anyone who works in the teaching industry, > where this concept is well understood and accepted. Well, if you've replied to them, then I'm sorry. To me your particular example: >>> Similarly checking out a commit and then cherry-picking a sequence >>> of commits while resolving conflicts becomes "rebasing". remains controversial; concepts or no concepts. Thanks, -- Sergey Organov
