From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:14:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Column display Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vipisbtw0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Come to think of it, that is really the same distaste I had against both > "diff --no-index" and "grep --no-index".  We know adding our enhancements > over non-git versions of these programs is a better gift to the outside > world, but we instead added the --no-index mode to Git to only keep the > benefit to ourselves, because it is far easier for us to do so. Exactly. Some people like me also benefit from the popularity of Git. If it's (likely) installed, I get many extra features for free. There are machines that I'm not allowed to install new stuff on. If it comes with BSD "column", not too bad. If not arghhh. -- Duy