From: Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:44:49 GMT
Subject: Re: bug: git name-rev --stdin --no-undefined on detached head
Message-ID: <CA+JQ7M9xEHezQG0ui+jrhdWRHAausqxe5W7ucj4XkiLwnFL+Yw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D22DF4C4-C98C-45FB-8D26-57B50A44FA3F@gmail.com>

> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 7:09 AM John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> wrote:
> This would have the potential of breaking scripts that rely on the current behavior.

Presumably, using --no-undefined scripts rely on presumed behavior
that doesn't exist.
Similarly, using --name-only should expect to return a symbolic name
While it's possible, I think it's rare that this would break scripts
in an unacceptable way.

> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 7:09 AM John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I’m a bit new, I’m wondering how we generally handle these cases?

I'm also new so I can't really comment on this :)
Though I believe the git suite in general is quite adamant on
backwards compatibility