From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:27:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently Message-ID: <7vhbeahln6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20101218084908.GE6187@burratino> Jonathan Nieder writes: > Ah, missed this before. It is not clear to me why this difference --- > is it just to be conservative about changing behavior? Yes. It is clear from the context you mean its tree if you feed a commit to commit-tree, but the original intent of not dereferncing was to avoid mistakes by scripts and people, so you need to make a convincing argument that not derefencing does not help avoiding mistakes, and prove that nobody's script is relying on the current behaviour for type-checking purposes.