Re: pull into dirty working tree

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

You can view this in terms of being a leg up for people who *do* want to use
git, but are in environments where they are unable to convince or force
everyone else to adopt git-style workflows. I think it's telling that almost
all the discussions about this kind of feature are of the form, "I'm trying to
convince my team to use git, and they find it no good because of X." It's the
person trying to sell git to the group, presumably so they can use it
themselves without having to go through a CVS or Subversion or p4 gateway,
that this stuff really helps. That the rest of the team will benefit down the
road too is nice but probably not the immediate selfish personal goal of the
people who are asking for this kind of feature.

Personally, I think there is a point where it isn't worth trying to 
convert the world.  If people consider GIT bad and unwilling to use it 
because of X or Z then they probably better stay with CVS.  There is a 
limit to how backward bending should GIT do to accomodate everyone, 
especially if it is about compromize in its usage model just to make 
life easier for people who want to preserve their inferior work flow.

This being said, I don't claim to have a particular opinion about the 
issue discussed in this thread.  Simply that things should be decided on 
a technical basis and be justified with good arguments.  Saying that "I 
can't convince my co-workers to use GIT if it doesn't do X" is _not_ a 
good argument.


Nicolas