Pushing after merge considered harmful

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Tue Jan 26 19:21:52 GMT 2010


> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:05:26 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
> Cc: stephen at xemacs.org, bialix at ukr.net, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> > How hard could it be to explain the effect of a few commands on a
> > DAG?  Do that in some orderly fashion, and the rest is indeed
> > trivial.  We are programmers here, we know what a DAG is, or can
> > learn in a few minutes.
> 
> Well, no, actually, when you're positioning yourself as the "friendly"
> VCS for non-programmer "regular people", you /can't/ do stuff like
> that.

How many such non-programmer users are among Bazaar users?  Did
anybody bother to take a poll?  My guess would be zero.  Why would a
non-programmer use a VCS?

If I'm right, there's no need to double the documentation manpower.



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