Re: Newbie grief

Rich Pixley [off-list ref] writes:

On 5/3/12 14:09 , Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Michael Witten[off-list ref]  writes:

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(Note, though, that Junio has done a laudable job of keeping the
whole experiment going strong).

You are giving me too much credit, and at the same time insulting the
people who polished Git enough to suit their workflow.  To them, the tool
has past "experiment" stage long time ago.  They found what was lacking
and what would help the need in their workflow.  I just have helped them
shape their ideas into a coherent whole.

That does not mean there is nothing missing, still appears experimental,
or inconsistent in the parts of the system that these people do not use
nor care about, and when you bring in people coming from different
background, they will notice the behaviour or default that do not match
their expectation....

...  The motivation to
change it would be to make it easier for the next person.

That is how the workflow support elements that were originally missing
like reflogs, stashes, tracking branches, etc. all came to exist.  Making
it easier for the next person is why we had a large discussion on the
default behaviour of unconfigured push andthe follow-up implementation of
the "simple" push behaviour.  It is a good example that community members
are willing to help new person even at the expense of inconvenience to old
timers.

What does _not_ happen is to chase down people who whined and left without
giving us something concrete enough to base design of new workflow support
elements, but the community cannot police the behaviour of those who come,
whine and then leave, so...