2009/2/25 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 2009/2/25 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> Please don't talk about changing the default without thinking the >>> ramifications through. >> >> Talking about doesn't harm anything. I don't really get why you're a >> bit hostile. > > I am not saying any discussion about the defaults is bad. > > But these topics add flames from uninformed people we have to douse early > to the list traffic, and make it harder to find useful topics by degrading > S/N ratio. You know, there might be a reason why you get lots of "uninformed people" complaining about the defaults. Distinguishing the flames shouldn't be your first instinct :) > In other words, it certainly harms a lot. > > I just want people to think twice (or more) if the change you are going to > propose is worthwhile before imposing that cost to everybody. A couple of > changes around "git push" scheduled for 1.7.0 are default changes, and it > was worthwhile to discuss about them, but I do not think this one deserves > the human bandwidth, especially we already had discussion on it recently > and we have a reasonable configuration mechanism for doing what you want > already. -- 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
