On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 05:03:06PM +0200, Stefan Haller wrote: > Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > > > I think Matt's point is just that the default, to use origin/branch, is > > unsafe. It's convenient when you don't have extra fetches, but that > > convenience may not be worth the potential surprise. > > I don't think "surprise" is the right word here. The point of > --force-with-lease is to provide a guarantee, so if you can't trust the > guarantee, it makes the feature rather pointless.
You can trust it under a certain set of conditions. If you break those conditions, it doesn't work. So that's why I said "surprise": most users aren't going to be aware of those conditions. But I also used the word "unsafe". That, or "dangerous", is certainly accurate. And I don't at all disagree that the situation should be improved. -Peff
