Re: [RFC, PATCH] git send-email: Make --no-chain-reply-to the default

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Nov 10, 2009, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20091110182942.GA15677@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20091110071927.GB11942@elte.hu>

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

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> * Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > [Footnote]
> > 
> > *1* To spell it out...  The people who are in the "hate 
> > chain-reply-to very much" camp would have already done their own 
> > configuration to get the behaviour they want by now, so changing the 
> > default would not help them much, while potentially hurting "love 
> > chain-reply-to" people who have been content because they got what 
> > they wanted without setting any configuration.
> 
> Stupid question: i researched the Git mailing list archive (and read 
> the link you provided) and found no arguments (at all) in favor of the 
> nested chaining. Are you aware of any?

Btw., dont get me wrong - i'm perfectly happy with the fix in 1.7.0. You are also right that behavioral changes dont belong into stable releases.

( I'm just seeing this problem through the biased eyes of someone who is
  affected by it, so i naturally want to have the benefit of the change
  ASAP - without fully perceiving the risks of the change.)

Thanks,

	Ingo