Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.11.0-rc0

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:56:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > As of -rc0, we have both --indent-heuristic and --compaction-heuristic
>> > (along with matching config), and they are mutually exclusive.
>> >
>> > In [1], Stefan suggested just replacing the compaction heuristic
>> > entirely with the new one (and you seemed to agree). If we're going to
>> > do that, it makes sense to do so before the release, so that we don't
>> > get stuck supporting --indent-heuristic forever.
>>
>> You meant "compaction" in the last part?  I think it is probably a
>> good idea.
>
> I thought the plan mentioned in the mail I linked was to keep the indent
> heuristic, but simply _call_ it the compaction heuristic. IOW, to swap
> out the implementation under the hood for something we know is better.

AFAICT Michaels design is better in every aspect than what I did initially,
so it supersedes the work I did there.  I would support the swap in names.

>
> We've already released a version with --compaction-heuristic, so we are
> stuck keeping it forever either way.

IIRC the release notes specifically noted this flag to be experimental and
may be removed in future versions.

When not doing the swap of the implementation, but rather remove the
experimental feature of compaction-heuristic and introducing a *new*
experimental --indent-heuristic, this may drive the point across that
these names are actually experimental.