[notgood]

Strongly disagree, the software should always list/show the files being commited in a little pop-up, if you see it is comitting a lot of files or something very big you should be able to press a "cancel" button; you know, like a regular OS file-copying dialog works.

[stouset]

Having worked with people who use these types of magic GUI tools that "hide the complexity" of $VCS, this shit happens all the time.

When they exist, popups are clicked through and ignored just as they are in every other computing context. And in the end, these tools are just a shorthand for "I don't have the time, desire, and/or motivation to understand how to operate the tools I rely on for work."

Not to argue that that perspective is bad or wrong, it just is what it is. And when someone doesn't understand a tool that operates an inherently complex system, it will inevitably lead to misuse.

[ursus_bonum]

That's fine but the article doesn't mention any popups. It just makes it sound like all of this will happen in the background without bothering the user.