From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:21:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lose perl dependency. (fwd) Message-ID: <7vbqkubiir.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > OTOH we can expect people _not_ to use --reverse with format-patch when > they don't know what it does! I mean, I don't go and use "ls" with an > option I saw in the man page, just because it has a cool ring to it. > > P.S.: Perhaps you should just stop worrying and learn to love --reverse I usually do not worry, especially while I am running 'next' myself. It's just unintended consequences I am worried about by touching somewhere deep in the revision machinery after -rc1.