From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:56:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1.8.0] add: make "add -u" update full tree without pathspec Message-ID: <7vk4gkk5pd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy writes: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... >> What you conceive as a problem is just a reminder that any incompatible >> change you plan to add will have pain involved.... > > No. But I hoped it would help me somehow, or at least remind me to > update git on the machines I touch. Perhaps the migration plan is not helpful enough? If that is the case we would need to rethink it to be even less impactful. I already do not like the possibility of potential double deprecation myself, one to flip the default and then possibly another to drop the support of the traditional behavour, but anything I've seen so far would hurt the end users more than that plan.