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by diminoten 2610 days ago
Your references to clicking repeatedly, and the general fact that github.com's innovation is the GUI it puts on top of a git workflow.
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I'm mystified about what's going on right now.

Both versions involve clicking.

Both versions involve command-line steps.

The difference is that the GitHub version requires more of both, needlessly. That's the point of what I wrote. That's the only point.

I don't understand this context where I'm being forced to defend an argument that's been foisted upon me and that I never made and never even thought of trying to make.

I'm sorry you don't understand it, but you don't get to ignore the implications that spawn off of your argument just because they're inconvenient.
What? You get to imagine some bad argument that would make it most convenient for you, and then demand that I defend that argument, as if it were one that I wanted to make? This is what I'm responsible for? Dealing with someone who resorts to strawmanning the person/idea at the other end when challenged?
I'm not imagining it, and that's the problem you're running into. It's a consequence of what you said.
It's not a direct consequence of anything that was said. It's a possible implication - in the conversational sense of implication, not the logical sense - but those get to be disclaimed.
His stance is literally that using a GUI is harder. That isn't a consequence, it's his core position.
The patch version only involves clicking when sending an email with an attachment involves clicking, right?