On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Marco Maggi wrote:
Sorry to put my nose into this
No worries, this is a discussion everyone can join!
but what exactly do you need them for? I think that views like [1] let you see the diff in a nice way; and if you pull the changes from a branch, you can examine them locally with "git diff". Is it because you do prefer mail to web pages and terminals?
It is because I "live" so much through email - I have 28 inboxes, I subscribe to 100+ mailing lists, I get several thousand legitimate emails every day and I filter off up to ten thousand spam emails every day.
As I get notified with email that something is changed, I want to be able to also review the particular change without having to go elsewhere that involves further commands or clicks or mouse usage. I do this in a vast number of projects, and it works very good for me.
It also helps that I read mail like from 7:00 in the morning until after midnight, repeatedly over the day, all days, all year around. And if I'm on the move, I read the mail on my phone.
I'm not saying it is the right thing for everyone, but I've learned to appreciate this approach and I've learned to streamline my environment after my habits and preferences to maximize my performance and waste less time on unrelated stuff. So it's primarily for my own selfish reasons!
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