Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3

> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Junio,
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >>
> >> >> And then your "git cat-file" patch can be upstreamed with the option
> >> >> renamed to (or with an additional synonym) "--filters", which would make
> >> >> things consistent.
> >> >
> >> > Right. I would like to ask for a `--smudge` synonym nevertheless, just
> >> > because I already use this. On the other hand, it is early enough to tell
> >> > everybody who knows about this feature to change their invocation (anybody
> >> > who would know about `--smudge` would be in that 1% of users that have
> >> > read the release notes, so most likely would read the next release notes,
> >> > too).
> >>
> >> It is OK if it were your private edition, but you end up hurting
> >> your users if you need to redo the feature differently.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this is the situation of Git for Windows from its
> > beginning: there has not been a single time that Git for Windows could
> > live with unpatched upstream Git's source code.
> >
> > Business as usual, though.
> 
> Bug fixes is one thing, features is completely different.