Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree

From: Uri Okrent <uokrent@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2009, 18:47 UTC
Message-ID: <4B101ED1.9000607@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4xbn7nl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> You preach to the choir.
> 
> That is exactly how we work and what people have been working hard for
> 1.7.0.  Check the planned changes listed in the recent (and not so recent)
> "What's cooking" summary reports.

Yes, I guess my only point here was that maybe even 1.7 is not enough of a "Big Deal" (in the eyes of the public) to warrant breaking scripts. A 2.0 version would be a more visible way to say "Hey test your scripts before upgrading". Adopting a strategy like that would mean making backwards incompatible changes a lot let frequently, but when we do we go for broke.

> Changing "grep" is too late for 1.7.0, but we are trying to find an easy
> migration path like you mentioned in your message and that is exactly what
> this thread is about.

I wasn't actually suggesting we change grep for 1.7. As a matter of fact, my personal opinion (which I probably neglected to mention) is that grep default behavior should stay the same since it is semantically closer to unix (or gnu) grep.

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    Uri

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