From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:23:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example
Message-ID: <85r6mrzkib.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqdvolww.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> One minor objection I do have is that, just as a matter of
> principle, in order to avoid setting precedence of making a
> fundamental semantics change in late -rc stage in the game, we
> should not swallow it.  I do not mind if this were clearly a
> good change.
>
> However, I think Jeff's patch always makes it recursive even
> when the user asks for --raw, which makes it inappropriate for
> inclusion whether before or after 1.5.3.

Personally, I think -r should be the default while one can use
--directory to switch it off.

Whether --raw should imply --directory might be a different question.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum