Re: git grep: search whole tree by default?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 23, 2013, 19:31 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk3h3pywt.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87zjpzg592.fsf@mcs.anl.gov>

Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> writes:
>>
>>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>>> I suspect that it would be too late for 2.0 we want to do sometime
>>>> early next year, though.
>>>
>>> How would you manage transition from the current behavior?  Warning
>>> people to explicitly use "." or ":/" during some interim period sounds
>>> worse than just switching the default behavior.
>>
>> "How would I"?
>>
>> You're asking that question only because you omitted too much from
>> the quote ;-)
>
> I meant that if the proposed migration plan were to be "just change it
> and people will learn" (because anything more gradual would actually be
> worse for users) then is it really too late for Git-2.0?

I do not know it that is even a workable plan, but I need to sleep on it and then hear opinion from others, but in general, if anybody needs to ask if it is too late, then it already is.