From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:07:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] archive: make --add-virtual-file honor --prefix
Message-ID: <xmqqh6dvflea.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <01b21870-b37e-47fe-9bd7-225499ae5eaf@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> I'm not sure I have an opinion on that topic, yet.  Fixing the
> documentation is certainly easier.  Adding the prefix to the path of
> virtual files as well is a breaking change.  I feel that the easier
> route should at least be mentioned in the commit message and why it
> was not taken.

It has been a few weeks since this discussion stalled.  Let me make
an executive decision on the direction here---let's keep the behaviour
and align the documentation so that we won't break existing users.

Thanks.