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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Cc: Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,  Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] status: compare against both upstream and push branch by default
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:10:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtsmc2hmn.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHwyqnVMgAhyHrevXOJ0sBKkaPPzSmCcCPSSeqm6dm-MRX65cQ@mail.gmail.com> (Harald Nordgren's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:48:30 +0200")

Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com> writes:

> This is the point behind this: To ease users into triangular thinking.
> We should not assume our users are git experts, many of my them never
> read the git docs.

So instead we should assume that they start from mental model that
was destroyed by use of GitHub?  The need to do so somehow makes it
smell like a sad world.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-23 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-19 19:23 [PATCH] status: compare against both upstream and push branch by default Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-19 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-20  9:16   ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-20  9:33 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-20 10:19   ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-20 10:56     ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-20 13:22     ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-10-23 17:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23 18:48     ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-23 22:10       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-23 22:54         ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-23 23:07           ` Junio C Hamano

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