From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:29:05 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #06; Wed, 25) Message-ID: <7vvdgvn7ny.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20091127144553.GA24366@progeny.tock> Jonathan Nieder writes: >> 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.