Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] git-gui: change to display the combined diff in the case of conflicts.

[Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>]

| apologies - missed the list

I agree that removing the options is better than preserving the
current behaviour,

My argument is simply this:

That it is better to inform a user that an action is potentially
dangerous than to "protect" them from
a "scaring" amount of diff -c output by presenting a conflict-only
summary. You claimed this output was "uninteresting" and hence should
be suppressed, my point was that supresssing output because it was
"uninteresting" is a dangerous thing to do because it is relevant to a
decision not to act.

My preference for options are:

* preserve the actions, but provide more information to the user
* remove the actions
* preserve the actions, make the safer output the default and enable
the simpler, more dangerous output as an option
* preserve the actions, make the current output the default and enable
the safer, less dangerous output an option.
* do nothing

We disagree about the relative order of options 1 and 2. But
seriously, if you agree the actions are dangerous I can't see how you
can argue that is preferable to suppress the scary amount of diff -c
output.

I would imagine that a change that proposed to remove the actions,
without an option to enable them, would encounter stiff resistance
from the list. However, perhaps the list can respond?

jon.