From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avery Pennarun Subject: Re: Making Git easy to use -- without RTFM, was Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:21 -0400 Message-ID: <32541b130910271058u514c3356j84f98182b6b3ede9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091015014737.GA9923@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20091027124156.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Nanako Shiraishi , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 27 18:59:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N2qK8-000324-Lp for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:59:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932081AbZJ0R6h convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932084AbZJ0R6h (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:37 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:49320 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932077AbZJ0R6g convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:36 -0400 Received: by yxe17 with SMTP id 17so350451yxe.33 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:58:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NcUAUOrpEcRiyNA2+jTXuOs6PtVWiE1n47FKkxisAW4=; b=S3N70oN68BBpa28P2+xl4I0nQmTA+yUg5p+xSvApE2vplmhuXV2zkBCNDZ8EMADoZK BTIWbd6Cq2szaiHqBdX+0gxZpJZpiIwjOwSVKlDsZ6YSTYXpsKt9Df7Ag8d5fndg077m 4pYR3WSLRi5vkjZhVmp/MRUTweaN4hCYBMti0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OWhpz5d8g4bED5IdDhuhTaTZaXI6PQaq+EiX5atiLmIKvY47MBXFc9yNDuDtMuQ9jZ ECLuf71MM99aGaTW4Por0TIY568S1x10nSjNto3VSXFAaMCzIiXD6JtAIL0rb4WxEZ8r Nmo73UUZ+sttTjk7XMdQgUDMnaub2fvdU+SJM= Received: by 10.150.172.1 with SMTP id u1mr26966389ybe.300.1256666321070; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:58:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Anyhow, here it is: one of my users refused to touch SCMs _at all_, f= or > decades. =A0There was only one choice: have a Git branch with a purel= y > linear history that contains the copy of the working tree at the end = of > the day, with whatever changes accumulated over the day, or no histor= y at > all. [...] > You know, when there is a hurdle half of the people you see cannot ge= t > over, there are some who make the hurdle half as high, and there are > others who put more hurdles there and call it a sport. > > In this case, I would have preferred to make the hurdle half as high,= but > I think I just have to wait a couple of years; reality will take care= of > things. In this case, what would you have preferred to change in order to make the hurdle half as high? Thanks, Avery