From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-archimport log entries more consistent
Message-ID: <7v3ay08zli.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <86myw9jwga.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> ... but given that the previous format was
> not declared canonical at any point of time, the question is whether
> anyone will indeed notice before things break.

I tend to agree with you.  archimport is so specialized that if
you are not using it you would not care, and small population
who are using it and relying on the old behaviour would notice
breakaage right away, so "Let's see who screams" sounds like the
right thing to do.