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Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurable
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Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> writes:

> When a user uses a script/importer which expects that the "default" option
> is used without setting it explicitly, and then the user changes the default,
> isn't it the users fault if that would break things?

Not necessarily.  There are many people who use scripts written by
others, without knowing how they work.  You could blame that the
script is broken, but not the poor user of that script.