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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:54:40 -0500
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches
 (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)
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Willy Tarreau wrote:

> From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users
> tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice,
> not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect
> most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So
> I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option.

The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early
adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped
working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to
worry about others who have started to rely on the option.

Regards,
Jonathan