From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #06; Wed, 25) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:29:05 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvdgvn7ny.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v8wduksgq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091127065904.GE20844@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20091127144553.GA24366@progeny.tock> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 27 19:29:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NE5ZJ-0006TK-3g for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:29:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752856AbZK0S3I convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751971AbZK0S3I (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:08 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:36947 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752812AbZK0S3H convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:07 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33857A23BC; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:14 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=BEoeSZrtTFCRPx/mtsuUiEq1E zI=; b=LTw5Y0tkuZuvtj70UaPUP9BNzzYPQR6PuoNBaZtZ52D9eEpfno3twS36z 3vxAKVX25zXzVgGXVUS6xYXzqzbGBEtN4z/zuSAGvxQMpKS9x/UGseNMtKTQoxiT O0KD315jAy2VLqK5LFZU/hmMs2DC99xY30L9IUrwo5LUk/Gf3w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Jdti6uDqcCEu9/rQdE6 E7PhDP5emCEwXCK0TZoEuzGjaUhdWRFJkTw06dYY7FFJu2gGhMNxILUAcewcJBof clQ+csZ/CaAV4Whsj+DpQm7KDPaN8ib0Ptr6/jgvdJbEZpbsJwqoehjUgu5xm4kD iRgiW+X8HvWXqAboJdoUW9WY= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04ABAA23BA; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A91B0A23B9; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:06 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C1B3D832-DB82-11DE-B645-EF34BBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: >> I can try to pick this up. But did we reach a decision on having a >> configuration variable? > > I am not sure, but I will say I would prefer not to have one. Surely > we can come up with a UI that does not require searching through > git-config(1) to be made convenient. > > Couldn=E2=80=99t we just add the option (with test and documentation)= first, > to get some experience with how we end up using the two forms? =20 > > If --full-tree does become the default, I think it should be in 1.7.0= , > when it is expected for some habits to break (with a configuration > variable for the transition, I guess). This might be okay, since > constructions like 'git grep foo -- "./*.h"' should still work. The flipping of "grep" default is too late for 1.7.0, as we have only started discussing it, and I want the release after 1.6.6 to be 1.7.0. I do not think we want nor need to have other things we have already prepared and have been advertising for 1.7.0 to wait one more cycle.