Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #06; Wed, 25)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2009, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvdgvn7ny.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091127144553.GA24366@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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>> I can try to pick this up. But did we reach a decision on having a
>> configuration variable?
>
> I am not sure, but I will say I would prefer not to have one.  Surely
> we can come up with a UI that does not require searching through
> git-config(1) to be made convenient.
>
> Couldn’t we just add the option (with test and documentation) first,
> to get some experience with how we end up using the two forms?  
>
> If --full-tree does become the default, I think it should be in 1.7.0,
> when it is expected for some habits to break (with a configuration
> variable for the transition, I guess).  This might be okay, since
> constructions like 'git grep foo -- "./*.h"' should still work.

The flipping of "grep" default is too late for 1.7.0, as we have only started discussing it, and I want the release after 1.6.6 to be 1.7.0.

I do not think we want nor need to have other things we have already prepared and have been advertising for 1.7.0 to wait one more cycle.