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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 13:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712181329340.23902@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071218124808.GA3728@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:06:23PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > >   - 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.
> 
> Yes, it should be, but I think there will be a few user-visible fallouts
> (like "--abbrev $foo" in scripts should now be "--abbrev-default $foo"
> for safety).

But we are on our way to fix this, no? IOW this warrants not a version bump, but an extended feature freeze/bug fix period (like Junio suggested, until January).

Ciao, Dscho