From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:53:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git-name-rev off-by-one bug
Message-ID: <7v4q5v5536.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051130001503.28498.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com writes:

> I'm wondering if this isn't a philosophical issue.

I do not think so.  I have to admit I did not exactly agree with
the current behaviour when it was changed from the previous one,
but at the same time I did not have anything concrete against
it, and I did not care too much about the details back then.  I
suspect it was primarily be done to make things easier for the
end user without changing already existing tools (i.e.,
git-diff-files did not have to start taking --stage=2 flag to
tell it to compare stage2 and working tree).

This is the message from Linus that announced the current
behaviour:

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111826424425624