From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:29:51 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin 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. That's the price of your using open source and taking a short-cut. Adding a "--smudge" synonym is spreading the same hurt to outside your fork. Let's see if we can avoid doing that. Perhaps mark that "--smudge" as experimental-and-subject-to-change and re-announce?