From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 12:24:24 +0100 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: <8F49068316F64566954C5D037C512704@PhilipOakley> References: <5363BB9F.40102@xiplink.com> <87k3a4xjzg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5363ec734572a_70ef0f30cdc@nysa.notmuch> <2F8B2EEED0594446A6FCF771BBEDFB56@PhilipOakley> <536428f7796e0_200c12912f03@nysa.notmuch> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Felipe Contreras" , , "David Kastrup" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 03 13:24:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WgY3d-0001uB-BP for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 13:24:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751050AbaECLY0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2014 07:24:26 -0400 Received: from out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.243]:60807 "EHLO out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005AbaECLYZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2014 07:24:25 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgIZAKHRZFNOl3Og/2dsb2JhbABZgwaEDoU9vCgFAQIBgQ8XdIIgBQEBBAEIAQEZFR4BASYGAgMFAgEDFQECAgIFIQICFAEECBIGBxcGARIIAgECAwEKiBIDCQylX4Val3oNhkQXgSqIB4MKhRI2gRUEkAiHOo8JhV2DNTw X-IPAS-Result: AgIZAKHRZFNOl3Og/2dsb2JhbABZgwaEDoU9vCgFAQIBgQ8XdIIgBQEBBAEIAQEZFR4BASYGAgMFAgEDFQECAgIFIQICFAEECBIGBxcGARIIAgECAwEKiBIDCQylX4Val3oNhkQXgSqIB4MKhRI2gRUEkAiHOo8JhV2DNTw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,977,1389744000"; d="scan'208";a="107659752" Received: from host-78-151-115-160.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([78.151.115.160]) by out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net with SMTP; 03 May 2014 12:24:23 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "Felipe Contreras" Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 12:23 AM > Philip Oakley wrote: >> From: "Felipe Contreras" >> > So? No defaults can please absolutely everyone, the best anybody >> > can >> > do is try to please the majority of people, and merging >> > fast-forwards only does that. >> >> That assumes that doing something is better than doing nothing, > > When doing something is better for the vast majority of people, that's > what should be done by default, unless the results are catastrophic > for > the minority. > > Since doing something is not catastrophic to the minority, it follows > that the default should be to do something. > That 'Since' and 'it follows' are where we have a diverging understanding about the solution approach... > It's a simple as that. ... which makes it not quite as simple as that ;-) [evidence: the ongoing dialog among all and sundry] > > -- > Felipe Contreras > -- Philip