On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >> It's not _that_ simple to define precisely in terms of the DAG. > > > > This hits the nail on the head! The current git model is > > incomplete/problematic if it cannot handle such a simple and > > extremely important thing as “prevent some j-a- from f-ing up the > > master repository”. > > I don't think adding more semantics (complication) to the data model > will solve anything. Why can't PETSc just always solve the problem in > the fastest way without all the complicated options for people to mess > up? Why do cars let themselves crash into other cars? >
These are ridiculous strawmen. Git is a tool for managing source code, and we are asking for a very simple and sensible source code management rule. It is truly simple, apart from devising an implementation in Git. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
