From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:23:51 GMT Subject: Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility 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 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. ;-) > * 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. > * 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. > * 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. > [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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.