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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--"
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:23:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131209192334.GT29959@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131209191224.GR29959@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Isn't this essentially breaking a contract

To clarify, if there were some strong motivation --- e.g.  if this
were resolving some security problem --- then I would be all for
breaking compatibility in this way.  What's confusing to me is that I
just don't see the motivation.  Why wouldn't someone that wants this
functionality be able to pass a flag for it?

Is the idea that without a flag it's easier to teach or something?

Hoping that clarifies,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-09 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-05 10:07 [BUG] redundant error message Duy Nguyen
2013-12-05 19:15 ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 20:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05 20:03     ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 20:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05 21:00         ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 21:28           ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 21:44             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-06 21:12               ` [PATCH 0/2] rev-parse and "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 21:13                 ` [PATCH 1/2] rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 21:15                 ` [PATCH 2/2] rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename arguments Jeff King
2013-12-06 22:05                   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 22:05                     ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 23:34                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-06 22:07                     ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rev-parse: be more careful with munging arguments Jeff King
2013-12-07  0:04                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 21:33                       ` Eric Sunshine
2013-12-06 22:08                     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename arguments Jeff King
2013-12-06 23:25                     ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--" Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-06 23:30                       ` Jeff King
2013-12-09 19:05                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-09 19:12                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 19:23                         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-12-09 20:48                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-09 20:56                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 21:10                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-06  1:15             ` [BUG] redundant error message Duy Nguyen
2013-12-06 22:13               ` Jeff King

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