From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 19:23:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--"
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