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Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
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
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Message 8 of 24 in “[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3”
  1. Johannes SchindelinAug 13, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2016
  3. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2016
  5. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2016
  6. Duy NguyenAug 22, 2016
  7. Johannes SchindelinAug 23, 2016
  8. Michael J GruberAug 23, 2016
  9. Johannes SchindelinAug 23, 2016
  10. Johannes SchindelinAug 23, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2016
  13. Dakota HawkinsAug 24, 2016
  14. Git for Windows documentation, was Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3Johannes Schindelin, Aug 24, 2016
  15. Dakota HawkinsAug 24, 2016
  16. Philip OakleyAug 24, 2016
  17. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2016
  18. Johannes SchindelinAug 24, 2016
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2016
  20. core.autocrlf, was Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3Johannes Schindelin, Aug 24, 2016
  21. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2016
  22. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2016
  23. Torsten BögershausenAug 25, 2016
  24. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2016

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