saiojd · HackerTrans

5 лет назадdiscuss

Oh, I definitely understand the mindset behind the decision, I just feel it's worthwhile to relax that kind of razor-sharp focus when millions of people are using your tool. Since you seem knowledgable about git, would you mind telling me how complicated implemented directories would be? (out of sheer curiosity, it's not like I care all that much about directories in git lol)

saiojd

5 лет назадdiscuss

I'm going to be charitable in interpreting your answer, but, if I'm being honest, I find your tone very dismissive... (I would even say, reminiscent of StackOverflow, and not in a good way.)

We could easily get into arguments over the specific uses of committing empty directories against the difference it ends up making in terms of stability and extensibility. Instead, consider that: 1) this behavior is very surprising, and 2) it offers no advantages to users, only disadvantages to some. Hence, it is unergonomic. My complaint was precisely that for extremely popular tools (such as git), it is worthwhile in general to sacrifice ease of implementation for ease of use, because the developper effort is amortized over the number of users.

saiojd

5 лет назадdiscuss

Great work. I wish usability/ergonomy was taken more seriously for popular tools that everyone uses (like git). Another stupid pain point with git is the inability to commit empty directories. I mean, come on.

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