Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 20:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pefzr7o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071218111136.GA6266@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I can think of two other user-visible changes which have been discussed
> that might warrant such a version bump:
>
>   - option parsing tweaks (hopefully these should be minor, but it is
>     clear that we cannot be 100% consistent while retaining the
>     identical previous behavior)

This could have a fallout, like *-default disambiguation which scripts did not have to implement.

>   - moving dashed forms out of paths

This is already planned for 1.5.5 and it is not among "other user-visible changes". Technically the use of git-foo form without preparing the environment has not been supported for quite some time, but people have come to rely on it and I'd agree this warrants a 1.6.0.