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Fwd: Re: conflicts, history, and the Principle Of Least Surprise

From: Sean Russell <ser_at_germane-software.com>
Date: 2002-02-20 21:56:36 CET

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<sigh> I *really* wish the Subversion list would set the Reply-To: header
back to the list. Which is more common: replying only to the person, or
replying to the list?

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Subject: Re: conflicts, history, and the Principle Of Least Surprise
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:55:06 -0800
From: Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net>

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On Tuesday 19 February 2002 10:12 pm, you wrote:
> c) We should behave as similarly to CVS as possible -- the Principle
> Of Least Surprise. This is really important, and was not given
> enough attention in the previous discussion imho. There's no
> point being gratuitously different if we can be an intuitive
> superset instead.

It's only PoLS if you're coming from CVS. Which isn't really an important
distinction, since your target audience for Subversion is CVS folks, but it
is good to keep in mind that people may like CVS-style conflict markers only
because they've been conditioned to; IE, people like what they are used to,
not neccessarily what is the best solution.

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