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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 03:32:23 -0500
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John Keeping wrote:
> The Mercurial API makes no such guarantee; it is considered a private
> implementation detail and most releases seem to contain some changes
> that require all consumers to be updated.
> 
> There is a different level of urgency between "you cannot use this new
> feature until you update Git" and "if you update Mercurial then the
> remote helper will stop working",

s/the remote helper will stop working/certain features of the remote
helper *might* stop working, but we are trying hard to make sure that
doesn't happen/

-- 
Felipe Contreras