Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 12:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712181204500.23902@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071218111136.GA6266@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:01:49PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > There indeed are handful scheduled removals.  I do not mind declaring 
> > that 1.6.0 comes after 1.5.4, or just relabel the removal schedule for 
> > 1.6.0 and keep the scheduled change on hold a bit longer.
> 
> I can think of two other user-visible changes which have been discussed 
> that might warrant such a version bump:
>
>   - option parsing tweaks (hopefully these should be minor, but it is
>     clear that we cannot be 100% consistent while retaining the
>     identical previous behavior)

IMHO this does not warrant a version bump. It should be mostly behind-the-scenes, after all.

>   - moving dashed forms out of paths

Playing it safe, and waiting with this after announcing it more obviously, is something that I appreciate. Too many scripts can break, and I am sure quite a few of mine will; I simply do not have the time right now to audit them.

Ciao, Dscho