From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:51:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] completion: remove old code
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2j+qotu8Fb-1qq9bqHqt+ZF877YzZFXHiMo7Z_BGzTMA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3a1erwf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> OK, maybe some people use it, but most likely they are using an old
>> version of git, and thus an old version of the completion script.
>
> Please adjust your attitude about backward compatibility to match the
> standard used for other parts of Git.

What attitude? I am simply stating a fact. How much percentage of
people do you think still have .git/remotes around? How many people do
you think have clones more than 3 years old? And how many of these
people would complain if remotes were not properly completed for these
repos?

I doubt anybody would have complained, but I guess we would never
know, because I already proposed a solution that would work for them
and only uses a *single* line of code, unlike the current 40 ones.

I don't see what is the problem with the attitude of sending a patch
to remove code that most likely nobody cares about (neither you or I
have numbers on this), and then finding an alternative when people do
care about it.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras