From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] limit the usage of the default remote "origin" to the minimum Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:42:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20080429214210.GB2413@steel.home> References: <4812DA50.3000702@gnu.org> <20080429193536.GA19340@sigill.intra.peff.net> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paolo Bonzini , git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org, gitster@pobox.com, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de, srb@cuci.nl To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 29 23:43:09 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JqxbN-0003za-Cw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:43:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752799AbYD2VmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:42:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752686AbYD2VmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:42:14 -0400 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.188]:49229 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752532AbYD2VmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:42:13 -0400 X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-RZG-AUTH: z4gYkBuibEUndJ36PWMnarO+D1WRsg== Received: from tigra.home (Fabc8.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.171.200]) by post.webmailer.de (fruni mo22) (RZmta 16.27) with ESMTP id R062e6k3TK1SsR ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:42:11 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85B9277BD; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:42:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by steel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8680A56D28; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:42:10 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080429193536.GA19340@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King, Tue, Apr 29, 2008 21:35:36 +0200: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:23:53PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > This patch may cause incompatibilities to be warned about in > > the release notes. Luckily, these incompatibilities only affect > > users that already know their way in .git/config, because no porcelain > > command creates push refspecs. > > I think you understand the compatibility issues, but I think it needs to > be not "warned in the release notes" but "warned in the release notes, > followed by a period of adjustment, and then the change". And maybe it > would even make sense to wait for a larger-number version change (like > 1.6.0). But please, make this "period of adjustment" actually visible to the USER WHO DOES NOT READ RELEASE NOTES. Say loud and clear when you do something different. And better yet - do not do anything unexpected just yet. Describe it, print instructions about changing configuration. So that next less-minor-release with changed behavior (but the warning still in place) is less of a surprise.