From: Felipe Contreras Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:59:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] completion: remove old code Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Frans Klaver wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: > >> We are not talking about backwards compatibility; we are talking about >> compatibility of remotes completion of the bash completion script of >> repositories more than 3 years old with remotes that haven't been >> migrated. > > What's not backward about that? Not all backwards compatibility issues are the same. >> This barely resembles the git-foo -> 'git foo', which truly broke >> backwards compatibility, and at the time I proposed many different >> approaches to deal with these type of problems, which seem to be >> followed now (although probably not because of my recommendations). >> >> But this has nothing to do with _attitude_; I am merely stating fact. >> I have never expressed any opinion or attitude with respect to how >> backwards compatibility should be handled in this thread, have I? > > As far as I know you haven't explicitly said anything about that. > There may still be a possibility that the sentence Junio quoted in his > reply could have implied a certain attitude. I already asked, but I ask again; what would be that attitude? Not caring about backwards compatibility? Then that implication would have been wrong. If you look a few lines below, you would see a change that doesn't break backwards compatibility, which proves the previous implication wrong... Not to mention previous discussions. >>> Maybe numbers for this could be generated from the next git user >>> survey. If numbers justify this change, maybe this or something like >>> it could be scheduled for a major release of git. >> >> Maybe, but I doubt this issue hardly deserves much discussion. > > I wouldn't know about that. Apparently not everybody is happy with > applying it without further discussion. Jonathan Nieder is happy with the 'ls -1 "$d/remotes"' change, and I haven't seen anybody object it. Either way. I'm not going to discuss in this thread any more. I'll resend the patches, feel free to comment there. -- Felipe Contreras