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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default
	changes
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:48:08 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:06:23PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> >   - option parsing tweaks (hopefully these should be minor, but it is
> >     clear that we cannot be 100% consistent while retaining the
> >     identical previous behavior)
> 
> IMHO this does not warrant a version bump.  It should be mostly 
> behind-the-scenes, after all.

Yes, it should be, but I think there will be a few user-visible fallouts
(like "--abbrev $foo" in scripts should now be "--abbrev-default $foo"
for safety).

-Peff