Re: VC mode and git

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

> Nobody can make you change your mind.  Speaking as VC's designer 
> I'm not *entirely* opposed to adding a switch to make it behave 
> the way you want, though I don't think it would be a better idea 
> than if you got your mind in better sync with the way DVCSes 
> actually work.
>
> But changing the default...that would be a bad idea.  That would 
> be trying to distort all DVCSes into a CVS-like shape. I won't 
> do that, it would make too many other people unhappy for what I 
> consider to be no good reason.

My guess is that, if such a setting /were/ made a default, there 
might well be a rash of people posting to places like 
StackExchange with issues like:

"Help! I thought git commit and push would always be two separate 
operations, and now, using VC, I've accidentally just pushed some 
local commits to the origin repo. How do i undo this, particularly 
before anyone else does a fetch or pull from that repo?"

And that, after being told how to unclobber the remote, it will be 
suggested to these people that they use magit instead. Which would 
be fine by me, since i'm a fan of magit; but it might not be so 
good for convincing people to use VC as their primary source 
control interface.


Alexis.