Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

From: "Felipe Contreras" <redacted>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 12:23 AM

Philip Oakley wrote:

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From: "Felipe Contreras" <redacted>

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So? No defaults can please absolutely everyone, the best anybody 
can
do is try to please the majority of people, and merging
fast-forwards only does that.

That assumes that doing something is better than doing nothing,

When doing something is better for the vast majority of people, that's
what should be done by default, unless the results are catastrophic 
for
the minority.

Since doing something is not catastrophic to the minority, it follows
that the default should be to do something.

That 'Since' and 'it follows' are where we have a diverging 
understanding about the solution approach...

It's a simple as that.

... which makes it not quite as simple as that ;-) [evidence: the 
ongoing dialog among all and sundry]

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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Philip