Subject: Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation

From: Sergey Organov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 23:42:06 +0300

Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]> writes:

> Sergey Organov wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]> writes:
>> > Sergey Organov wrote:
>> >> Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> >> > Compound operations soon become basic operations in the mind of an
>> >> > expert.
>> >> >
>> >> > Lifting your feet, and then landing your feet might be basic operations
>> >> > when you are 1 yo, but soon enough they become "walking".
>> >> 
>> >> [caveat: please don't take the rest of this post too seriously]
>> >> 
>> >> Yeah, using another name for a compound is yet another option indeed.
>> >> "git cretching"?
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> This is very questionable example. Please don't let me even start on
>> >> this.
>> >
>> > You don't need to validate the concept, but chunking is an established
>> > concept in cognitive pshychology [1]. It's how humans learn (and
>> > possibly machines too).
>> 
>> The urdge to dive into the muddy waters of psychology to support your
>> example, where pure logic should probably have sufficed, makes the
>> example only even more suspect.
>
> Suspect to you, maybe, not to anyone who works in the teaching industry,
> where this concept is well understood and accepted.

Well, if you've replied to them, then I'm sorry.

To me your particular example:

>>> Similarly checking out a commit and then cherry-picking a sequence
>>> of commits while resolving conflicts becomes "rebasing".

remains controversial; concepts or no concepts.

Thanks,
-- 
Sergey Organov