From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:24:27 -0800 Message-ID: <7v4pefzr7o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20071215004230.GF7300@mail.oracle.com> <20071217200920.GB19816@mail.oracle.com> <7v3au16myj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vbq8o4yxc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46a038f90712171952i4f53876fv55b0e6993d5f4b0a@mail.gmail.com> <7vlk7s38aq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071218111136.GA6266@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Martin Langhoff , Nicolas Pitre , Joel Becker , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 18 21:25:55 2007 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 1J4j0H-0002CD-Un for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:25:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752251AbXLRUY4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:24:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751436AbXLRUY4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:24:56 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:57302 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbXLRUYz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:24:55 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7B9616F; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:24:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9B5616E; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:24:40 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > I can think of two other user-visible changes which have been discussed > that might warrant such a version bump: > > - option parsing tweaks (hopefully these should be minor, but it is > clear that we cannot be 100% consistent while retaining the > identical previous behavior) This could have a fallout, like *-default disambiguation which scripts did not have to implement. > - moving dashed forms out of paths This is already planned for 1.5.5 and it is not among "other user-visible changes". Technically the use of git-foo form without preparing the environment has not been supported for quite some time, but people have come to rely on it and I'd agree this warrants a 1.6.0.