From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:56:52 -0700 Message-ID: <7viqeha2zv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <76718490910141156g440ee455t2e1db72ad72b7049@mail.gmail.com> <7v7huxbtbk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vws2xa9lu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091014230934.GC29664@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , Daniel Barkalow , Jay Soffian , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 15 03:03:07 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 1MyEkD-0003Ia-Vd for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:03:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762314AbZJOA5t (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:57:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762295AbZJOA5s (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:57:48 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55620 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762293AbZJOA5s (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:57:48 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E159F5995A; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:57:05 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=9ZdtBvWKokvRuzfXOV83+lB6Drk=; b=JVdJtP MyhQjd4ZODllrk0sMtsmnzcHFzNbxDDVyzIZqb0CN9pA3N+yzj+z1T4MtSdg16Sp CucGE4AnWXMhwDA4MrF8UM91DbZcPUW26Z9Xeq3+cvD0GPcunypLxiptmVroQzIz QUPpqBmnJQHjE0qkUUPiXglN7QGMoX0Ehlnv0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=D+nA/mxiY0BdBnVqyC+b2tv0hsZzAMb6 bQNg4572+drlKdZoInwi9hi4UFUgDQRSFrdgiuR/GYncSLxDXqyWsa/ClCrtzcJ2 h49FkVJNQNAfbpewXU9RWf3PrTjIQ4YU0dfEm2NYwts5v/VsHavpP7g3FUWIhZb1 SKU5WKEo6nE= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A5759955; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:57:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F51E5994B; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:56:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Wed\, 14 Oct 2009 19\:34\:46 -0400 \(EDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A54E041C-B925-11DE-BAF7-1B12EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > Can't the user confusion be dealt with through some means other than > making the tool less flexible? I don't mind extra help message to be > displayed after a headless commit is made for example. But trying to > make the tool more friendly should perhaps come from better education > rather than added restrictions. > > My thoughts only. I actually share that but there apparently are people who have given up on the education route.