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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:37:52 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de, peff@peff.net, me@ttaylorr.com, johncai86@gmail.com, newren@gmail.com, christian.couder@gmail.com, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com, jonathantanmy@google.com, karthik.188@gmail.com, Derrick Stolee Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] PATH WALK III: Add 'git backfill' command In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:56 +0100") References: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:37:51 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > I was wondering whether we might want to mark the new command as > experimental at first to allow us to iterate, but the last set of > commands where we have done so are still experimental many years after > they have been introduced. So... probably not a good idea. I am not sure if I agree. Anybody who wants any of these commands that are marked as experimental to be declared stable can propose to do so with a reasonable timeline attached.