From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Jeske" Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:18:45 -0000 Message-ID: <153.722326695238$1214278017@news.gmane.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 24 05:26:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAzBC-0002GS-7a for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:26:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752522AbYFXDZy (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:25:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752884AbYFXDZy (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:25:54 -0400 Received: from w2.willowmail.com ([64.243.175.54]:59983 "HELO w2.willowmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752245AbYFXDZy (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:25:54 -0400 Received: (qmail 7236 invoked by uid 90); 24 Jun 2008 03:25:33 -0000 X-Mailer: Willow v0.02 Received: from 67.188.42.104 at Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:18:45 -0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: -- Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> or we expect "running without ever collecting the log" >> to be a valid mode of operation... which I doubt is the case. > > Why not? Is see the hole I left in my logic, so let me restate. ... or we expect "human parsing of the the log" is a valid common user-interface for non-git developers.