[squeak-dev] MC Merge browser: 'Accept same source' button considered harmful
Tobias Pape
Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sun Jun 24 05:50:48 UTC 2018
> On 24.06.2018, at 02:57, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>> Does anyone like to go around and change the format of other peoples
>> code and nothing else? I consider this inconsiderate to my peers and
>> I'm sure most around here do, as well.
>>
>> So does anyone know why in the world we this crazy button tacked onto
>> the end of the MC Merge browser? Every time I have a merge conflict,
>> this button rears its ugly head and forces me to reckon with it. Not
>> only is it incongruous with the rest of the buttons, but totallly
>> wrongheaded for how we respect each others work, resulting in
>> unpleasant thoughts and experience every time I see it.
>>
>> Browsing origin just shows:
>> ___
>> Name: Monticello-tfel.637
>> Author: tfel
>> Time: 25 July 2016, 3:24:24.996828 pm
>> UUID: cf0d6af1-c703-5044-9c57-e798b0cf3abf
>> Ancestors: Monticello-cmm.636
>>
>> add a button for rejecting all incoming conflicts that only change AST
>> ____
>>
>> (rant) Explaining WHAT your changed in your version notes is
>> redundant, we can all see the code. Please tell us WHY you are doing
>> it.
>>
>> So does anyone know? I think we should remove it and I cringe to
>> wonder how many original works we lost to it... :(
>>
>
> I do not understand the rant. The offending button was added almost a year
> ago, and its balloon help says this:
>
> Choose all local conflicting versions that have essentially the same code
>
> Even though I have never used this, the intent seems clear. It says "if
> somebody was just messing around with the formatting but did not change
> anything, then reject the change because it is not nice to mess with the
> format of other peoples' code."
+10
>
> What's not to like about that?
>
> Dave
>
>
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