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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071020070249.GX14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D972813-2D7F-4D6A-958F-B76E947E7BC3@MIT.EDU>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> On 20 Oct 2007, at 2:36:28 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> >Today I move the file, then unstage the hunks I'm not sure about,
> >then go back and restage them.  Annoying.  It really disrupts
> >my workflow.
> 
> I know it's against policy, but the proposed change should be set
> as the default at some point, in my opinion.

Its not so much policy as a timing issue.

Git 1.5.4 shouldn't have major distruptions to end-users in terms
of changing existing behavior to be different than in 1.5.3.
Especially default behavior.

Git 1.6.0 we're a little bit more willing to change default
behavior as it is a full major release.  This is probably quite a
bit off still, unless we started to accumulate a lot of really good
changes that required breaking something in the user interface.
That's what happened with the 1.4.4 series vs. 1.5.0.  Right now
I don't see that happening anytime soon.

> I have a feeling that my suggestion will not go far,
> but I also think that backwards compatibility can
> overstay its welcome.

I agree.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-20  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18 15:47 Proposed git mv behavioral change lmage11
2007-10-19  1:47 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  1:57   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  2:07     ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  2:15       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  2:16       ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  2:29         ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19 11:33           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-19 15:57             ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  1:54 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  2:54   ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  3:19     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  3:24       ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:26         ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  3:35           ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:40             ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  3:47               ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:53                 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-19  3:58                   ` Jeff King
2007-10-20  5:55                 ` Ari Entlich
2007-10-20  6:24                   ` Jeff King
2007-10-20  6:34                     ` Michael Witten
2007-10-20  6:36                       ` Jeff King
2007-10-20  6:36                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20  6:40                       ` Jeff King
2007-10-22 14:00                         ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-20  6:45                       ` Michael Witten
2007-10-20  7:02                         ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-10-20 11:15                         ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-22 14:08                           ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-20  5:55   ` Ari Entlich
2007-10-20  6:30     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20  7:46       ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-20  6:34     ` Jeff King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-19  4:41 lmage11
2007-10-20  5:55 Ari Entlich
2007-10-20  6:31 ` Jeff King
2007-10-20 11:02 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-20 11:06   ` Jeff King

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