Pushing after merge considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:57:34 -0600
> From: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
> CC: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>, bialix at ukr.net,
>   bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It is most distinctly non-zero. The ubuntu documentation group
> specifically uses this, and has a significant fraction of people with a
> graphic design style background, and minimal 'programming' experience.
> 
> It also gets used for versioning office style documents, and people who
> are using it to version $HOME (though I believe those are mostly
> programmers using it for something else).

<Shrug> whatever.

Anyway, here's a proposal: if the Bazaar docs team explains the effect
of the most important commands in terms of a history DAG, I will sit
down and write a version of it that will be understandable by
non-programmers.  Deal?