From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Cc: Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] status: compare against both upstream and push branch by default
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:07:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh5ic2eyr.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHwyqnXwFwJYSA-ktNuDKk6RfXjyvFiYka-K13-9wq=qFgKnjQ@mail.gmail.com> (Harald Nordgren's message of "Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:54:01 +0200")
Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com> writes:
>> > This is the point behind this: To ease users into triangular thinking.
>> > We should not assume our users are git experts, many of my them never
>> > read the git docs.
>>
>> So instead we should assume that they start from mental model that
>> was destroyed by use of GitHub? The need to do so somehow makes it
>> smell like a sad world.
>
> I think it's better to accept the world as it is rather than engaging
> in wishful thinking :)
At least you could push whatever is encouraging the use of "-u" to
break their mental model into also suggesting to set the necessary
configuration, which would make _them_ internally consistent, without
breaking existing users (and without bothering me).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-23 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 19:23 [PATCH] status: compare against both upstream and push branch by default Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-19 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-20 9:16 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-20 9:33 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-20 10:19 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-20 10:56 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-20 13:22 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-23 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23 18:48 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-23 22:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23 22:54 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-23 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-24 13:49 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-24 16:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-25 10:51 ` [PATCH v3] " Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
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