From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:59:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFD 0/2] revision.c: --merges, --no-merges and --merges-only
Message-ID: <20110317195905.GG20508@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1300359256.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:33:56PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> This mini series makes it so that --no-merges undoes --merges
> and vice versa, as the user should be able to expect,
> and that --merges-only is a separate option.

Having recently been confused by this (and frustrated at the lack of an
equivalent to your new "--merges"), I do think the result is better.

However, this is totally changing the meaning of an option to plumbing
like rev-list (among others). Is it worth the breakage? If so, what's
the migration plan? Did I miss a discussion somewhere?

-Peff