Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2010, #06; Tue, 21)

> From: Junio C Hamano
> Date: 12/23/2010 10:17 AM
>> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy<pclouds@gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  wrote:
>>> With jj/icase-directory merged to master, match_pathspec() and
>>> match_pathspec_depth() now diverse again.
>>>
>>> When I wrote match_pathspec_depth(), I assumed that match_pathspec()
>>> would not change much and I would have more time for converting the
>>> rest of git to use match_*_depth(). Looks like I need to add case
>>> insensitive matching to struct pathspec and friends then remove
>>> match_pathspec() in this series too. At least if somebody changes
>>> match_pathspec() again, it would cause a conflict so I can catch it.
>> While this topic is something I have long wanted to see, I have started
>> feeling that this needs to cook a bit longer than be in the next release.
>> So perhaps the best course of action might be to rebase the series once
>> after the 1.7.4 feature freeze, cook it in 'next' for a while and make it
>> part of the release after that.  I think at that point we may probably
>> want to have other changes that are not strictly backward compatible but
>> their incompatibilities do not matter in practice (e.g. cquoting pathspecs
>> in the attributes file comes to mind, but I am sure there will be other
>> changes that people wanted to have but we held them off due to worries on
>> compatibility).
>>
>> What do you think?
> ...
> Having said that, I have had 100 people using the jj/icase-directory
> series on Windows daily for 4 months now without issue.  Prior to
> that, a majority of the series had been used for a full year by a
> dozen people....