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Re: [RFC variant 2 of 2] "needs update" considered harmful

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 20, 2008, 12:41 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0807201435450.3305@eeepc-johanness>
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Hi,
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Scripts need to be modified for the reorganization anyway,
No.  They do not, if the 1st variant is applied.
> and I'm not sure if there are any actually depening on this particular 
> string.

That is the question, isn't it? You would never know. Many people, strange as it sounds, do not write to this list when they encounter problems with Git. They vent on their blogs, not giving us a chance, and other people comment "Me too"s.

One of the most important features of Git used to be its scriptability, and I think that many hackers just love Git for it, even new hackers.

So it is probably not unheard of that someone wrote an update hook or a cronjob using the output of "update-index --refresh".

But those people are probably not on this list, or not following every thread, or they even forgot how/that they implemented such a hook/cronjob.

Ergo: we would not know if scripts break.  Until it is too late.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. refresh-index: fix bitmask assignmentJunio C Hamano, Jul 20, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2008
  4. [RFC] "needs update" considered harmfulJunio C Hamano, Jul 20, 2008
  5. Jay SoffianJul 21, 2008
  6. [RFC variant 1 of 2] "needs update" considered harmfulJunio C Hamano, Jul 20, 2008
  7. [RFC variant 2 of 2] "needs update" considered harmfulJunio C Hamano, Jul 20, 2008
  8. Petr BaudisJul 20, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 20, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2008
  11. Jay SoffianJul 21, 2008
  12. André Goddard RosaJul 20, 2008

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