Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:22:26AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

At some point, trying to educate the user is not helpful but annoying.  If 
Git already knows what I want, why does it not do it already?  _That_ is 
the question I already hear in my ears.

I am not entirely convinced that the suggested behaviors will result in
that user response, or a different one (like "why does git keep giving
me bad advice?"). Which is why I suggested data collection.

quoted

So doing step (1) would be a way of collecting some of that data (will 
users say "stupid git, if you knew what I wanted, why didn't you just do 
it?" or "stupid git, your suggestion is just confusing me!").

I disagree.  It is not about collecting data.  We will not get any 
feedback from the affected people.  You know that, I know that.

I don't agree. You are already talking about users complaining about
git's interface. Isn't that feedback? How do you hear those complaints
now?

I don't think they will come on the list and talk about it, but if we
release a version of git that has differing behavior and give it some
time to be used in the wild, we _will_ get feedback in the form of
blogs, complaints on other lists, word-of-mouth, etc.

Now maybe that is not a good idea in this instance, because that sort of
feedback may take several versions to appear, and we are talking about a
potential timetable of v1.7.0, which is probalby only two versions away.

-Peff