Merge Commits
Merge Commits
Posted Oct 15, 2010 7:22 UTC (Fri) by dark (guest, #8483)In reply to: Merge Commits by mingo
Parent article: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition
No, no, an essential part of conservatism is the assumption that new things are not yet fully understood. If they (as a project) have misunderstandings about Git workflows then that is an excellent reason to stick with their current workflows for now.
Posted Oct 15, 2010 7:52 UTC (Fri)
by mingo (guest, #31122)
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Saying that "we are sticking with our existing workflow because we don't understand the Git workflow yet" is of course fine and is a valid approach, but that is not what they did: instead they explicitly claimed things about the Git workflow which is simply not true, and justified their steps with those (incorrect) assumptions.
Claiming/believing things that are not true is obviously not a productive element of 'conservativism'.
Merge Commits
No, no, an essential part of conservatism is the assumption that new things are not yet fully understood. If they (as a project) have misunderstandings about Git workflows then that is an excellent reason to stick with their current workflows for now.