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Re: Why does 'submodule add' stage the relevant portions?

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 25, 2013, 19:13 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> This whole "backward compatibility" thing is not black-or-white: it's
> shades of gray.  Can I ask about how "backward incompatible" the other
> suggestions I listed were, just so I get a rough idea of your scale?

It depends on how important the change is and how painful the proposed transition is.

Please don't gratuitously break things. If there is a smooth way to accomplish the intended effect without much downside, that is generally preferred, even if it is harder to write the code.

There are no absolutes here. It is about helping people in the real world who never asked for such-and-such feature to avoid suffering real breakage.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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