Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.2-rc0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2013, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vobfh8bjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nh9v5an.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Git v1.8.2 Release Notes (draft)
>> ========================
>>
>> Backward compatibility notes
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> In the upcoming major release (tentatively called 1.8.2), we will
>> change the behavior of the "git push" command.
>>
>> When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
>> traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
>> to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
>> over there).  We will use the "simple" semantics
>
> I don't understand: wasn't this supposed to happen in Git 2.0? Did you
> mean "In the upcoming major release (tentatively called *2.0*)"?

Thanks. I am not sure what I was thinking. Perhaps when we started this cycle we did want to merge the push-2.0-default-to-simple series

Will update.

> Also, you may want to mention the argumentless "git add -u" change too.
> It currently has an item below, but this is a future
> backward-incompatible change so it may deserve to appear in this section
> too.

Quite right. Care to do the honors as the proposer to the new direction?