Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 20, 2005, 13:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20050920132351.GB1884@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsr4cx0f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:07:28AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

> I raised the following issues in my previous messages but did
> not hear many opinions [*1*].  I do not want to take it as a
> blank check from the community to do whatever I please.  So here
> is a recap.

When I'm active on the mailing list, you can be sure that I'd complain if I didn't like it. ;-)

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>  * Tools renaming plan calls for removal of the backward
>    compatible command names (e.g. git-fsck-cache and
>    git-update-cache) sometime in the future.  This is scheduled
>    for 0.99.8 around beginning of October.  If somebody wants
>    extended amnesty period, this can be pushed back but unless I
>    hear otherwise...

I think the start of October is fine for Cogito. Cogito users usually upgrade both Cogito and GIT at once, it seems.

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>  * After reviewing the current set of commands, the following do
>    not seem to be useful anymore; Linus said he feels they can
>    go, and nobody else objected:
> 
>    git-diff-helper git-diff-stages git-export git-rev-tree
> 
>    I'd like to remove them before 1.0, and planning to do it
>    within the 0.99.8 timeframe unless I hear otherwise.

Cogito does not use any of those.

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>  * After Brian Gerst posted a patch to show 'modified' files in
>    ls-files [*2*], there was a brief discussion to change the
>    tagged output markings to make them more readable, but
>    neither Cogito nor StGIT seems to use tagged output.  I am
>    currently thinking about removing '-t' altogether.
> 
>    Again, unless I hear otherwise, I'd like to remove it within
>    the 0.99.8 timeframe.

Well, if it should be kept, it should certainly be in sync with git-diff-* tag letters. But Cogito uses only the diff tag letters and I'm not sure if tag letters for all files in repository would really be useful for anything.

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> [Footnote]
> 
> *1* Well, Pasky indicated he does not like some of the terms in
> the glossary in his recent Cogito release announcement, but that
> was unfortunately after the fact.

Yes. I would complain loudly during the discussion, but I unwisely skipped it at first and then didn't read the list for a few weeks. My fault, I have to make the best way out of the terminology mess I'm in now.

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