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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach git-describe to display distances from tags.
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:13:05 -0800
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> We probably should make an option to enable the count, and
>> if the count is enabled then we'll have to pickup counting
>> where we left off and finish it out for the chosen tag so
>> the count is correct.
>
> Please don't make it an option.  This is too useful to require an 
> additional switch all the time.

Hmph.  And an option --no-number to disable this is probably not
worth it, as it forces the existing scripts that wants the
tagname to be updated to pass that new option.  If the users
need to update their scripts anyway, they can sed/expr the
number out just as easily as passing the new option.

Another backward incompatibility to mention in the release
notes.  I guess it is not too big a deal but makes me feel
uneasy.