Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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- Aug 23, 2016, 14:41 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 23.08.2016 15:54:
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> Hi Duy, > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin >> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote: >>> Hi Junio, >>> >>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> >>>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: >>>> >>>>>> And then your "git cat-file" patch can be upstreamed with the option >>>>>> renamed to (or with an additional synonym) "--filters", which would make >>>>>> things consistent. >>>>> >>>>> Right. I would like to ask for a `--smudge` synonym nevertheless, just >>>>> because I already use this. On the other hand, it is early enough to tell >>>>> everybody who knows about this feature to change their invocation (anybody >>>>> who would know about `--smudge` would be in that 1% of users that have >>>>> read the release notes, so most likely would read the next release notes, >>>>> too). >>>> >>>> It is OK if it were your private edition, but you end up hurting >>>> your users if you need to redo the feature differently. >>> >>> Unfortunately, this is the situation of Git for Windows from its >>> beginning: there has not been a single time that Git for Windows could >>> live with unpatched upstream Git's source code. >>> >>> Business as usual, though. >> >> Bug fixes is one thing, features is completely different. > > Oh? Completely? > > So the core.hideDotFiles feature should have forced me to rename Git for > Windows to, say, DschoGit on Windows? > > Let's just stop here. This is getting too silly.
I see more truth than silliness in Duy's suggestion. Maybe you want to re-read what you wrote to trigger his response, and consider adjusting your attitude ("I want this now so I'll release it in Git4Win") rather than the downstream name.
Michael