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Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--"

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2013, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20131209192334.GT29959@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20131209191224.GR29959@google.com>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Isn't this essentially breaking a contract

To clarify, if there were some strong motivation --- e.g. if this were resolving some security problem --- then I would be all for breaking compatibility in this way. What's confusing to me is that I just don't see the motivation. Why wouldn't someone that wants this functionality be able to pass a flag for it?

Is the idea that without a flag it's easier to teach or something?

Hoping that clarifies, Jonathan

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  1. Duy NguyenDec 5, 2013
  2. Jeff KingDec 5, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2013
  4. Jeff KingDec 5, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2013
  6. Jeff KingDec 5, 2013
  7. Jeff KingDec 5, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2013
  9. 0/2 rev-parse and "--"Jeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  10. 1/2 rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"Jeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  11. 2/2 rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename argumentsJeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  12. 0/3 rev-parse and "--"Jeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  13. 1/3 rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"Jeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  14. Jonathan NiederDec 6, 2013
  15. 2/3 rev-parse: be more careful with munging argumentsJeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  16. Jonathan NiederDec 7, 2013
  17. Eric SunshineDec 9, 2013
  18. 3/3 rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename argumentsJeff King, Dec 6, 2013
  19. Jonathan NiederDec 6, 2013
  20. Jeff KingDec 6, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2013
  22. Jonathan NiederDec 9, 2013
  23. Jonathan NiederDec 9, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2013
  25. Jonathan NiederDec 9, 2013
  26. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2013
  27. Duy NguyenDec 6, 2013
  28. Jeff KingDec 6, 2013

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