Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080828192737.GN18340@parisc-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808282113410.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:18:53PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > No.  I'm effectively saying that *you shouldn't break backwards
> > compatibility*.  Ever.  It only annoys people.
> 
> This is something that comes out of a male cow, and from his back exit.

OK, I'm done.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

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