Re: Future suggestion's to assist with changes to git.

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20080828233045.GE29609@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0808281646570.18129@suse104.zenez.com>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:10:53PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:

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> Maybe on item could be on the git web site news items could be created to  
> announce backward compatibility changes.  I think most people do visit the 
> main website to look for information.  Having these changes posted there  
> or linked from the main page could be a positive method so something like  
> this will not happen in the future.

Do they? I haven't been to the git web site in quite a long time. Nor have I been to (for example) the vim web site. The two things I would personally notice are:

  - a note during upgrade of my system's packages. And this is going to
    be dependent on the packaging system used. 1.6.0 hasn't hit many
    distributions yet, so maybe there is still time for this. Gerrit,
    do you mind putting something into NEWS.Debian about the drop of
    "git-*" so that people with apt-listchanges will see it?

    For people building from source, we have the Release Notes, but
    beyond that, I don't know where to put it (and I don't meant the web
    site is a bad place -- the more places the better, but there is no
    catch-all place).

  - the command complaining that my use of it is deprecated. In
    retrospect, we probably should have done this.

-Peff