From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:04:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate Message-ID: <7vobghb3vz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <878v7lfvz7.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> greened@obbligato.org writes: > Junio, is there a policy for backward-compatability in contrib? I hope > that since that directory is for stuff not yet in mainline, there is > some room to massage the user interface. I do not think there is anything more than "we wish there were fewer such end-user facing changes." The purpose of having anything in contrib/ is to give them a way to gain more visibility than they otherwise would as standalone projects on their own. I don't want to control the day-to-day quality issues in them. That is what we have "guilty parties" for contrib/ subdirectories for, so that they can decide how mature their pieces in contrib/ are and what kind of b/c break is acceptable ;-) Thanks.