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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--"
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:23:34 -0800
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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