From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:22:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <53557071.5040500@gmail.com> <5356c1a61f6d8_463e11ef310a5@nysa.notmuch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , Sebastian Schuberth , Git Mailing List To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 22 22:23:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WchEU-0004cM-SE for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:23:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757987AbaDVUXS (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:23:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:50693 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757982AbaDVUXI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:23:08 -0400 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s3MKMuoa022507 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:22:56 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s3MKMvd4013766; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:22:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5356c1a61f6d8_463e11ef310a5@nysa.notmuch> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:23:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:22:56 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: s3MKMuoa022507 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1398802980.09126@TjOMQZcZJfMkpBwi0ML1Ig Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras writes: > Why is not material for v2.0? Because you say so? Are you going to wait another > ten years to introduce this to v3.0? There's no need to wait for a 3.0 to introduce this. If these would be low-priority compared to user-defined aliases, there's no backward compatibility issue, it can very well be a 2.1, or whatever number comes after 2.0. > This is actually the perfect time to do it. Junio has just tagged a -rc for 2.0, so it's clearly too late to start discussing new features for this particular release. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/