From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Duy Nguyễn" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:18:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130410211824.GC27070@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0k-YJwT__8Tc4B4WXq30ij3i8_d6qwyOCP5RLsKF9eazQ@mail.gmail.com>
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> My point is that we should have "sane"
> defaults, and fine-grained configurability so that uses who disagree
> can maintain their own configs.
I don't agree with this principle. I like a tool that behaves sanely
with little work and that is flexible enough to do hard things when
that's needed. Neither of those attributes implies configurability,
except in those unfortunate cases where "behaving sanely with little
work on the user's part" has to involve a different behavior from
person to person.
When people disagree about sane defaults, that's a sign that we didn't
understand the problem well. Often more thinking can lead to a
simpler answer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-18 16:58 [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-18 17:08 ` Jeff King
2013-03-19 9:58 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-19 10:02 ` Jeff King
2013-03-19 11:33 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-19 11:53 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-19 12:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-19 13:03 ` Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
2013-03-19 11:58 ` Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
2013-03-19 15:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-19 15:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-09 11:44 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-09 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-09 17:39 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-09 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-09 18:03 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-09 18:08 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-09 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-09 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-09 23:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-10 1:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 4:13 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 17:27 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 18:59 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 19:31 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 19:33 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 19:52 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 20:05 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 20:21 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 20:41 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 21:02 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 21:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 19:53 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 20:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-10 20:11 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-10 20:05 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 20:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 20:24 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 20:55 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 21:04 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 21:18 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-04-10 21:23 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 21:29 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-10 21:42 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 21:56 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 22:06 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 22:16 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 22:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 22:23 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 22:31 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-11 7:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-11 7:45 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-11 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-13 5:07 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 21:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-12 22:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 3:50 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 13:22 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-10 15:56 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-10 17:29 ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 13:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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