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Re: 2.11.0-rc1 will not be tagged for a few days

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 9, 2016, 23:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> I think we also need to make a final decision on the indent/compaction
> heuristic naming. After reading Michael's [0], and the claim by you and
> Stefan that the "compaction" name was declared sufficiently experimental
> that we could later take it away, I'm inclined to follow this plan:
>
>   1. Ship v2.11 with what is in master; i.e., both compaction and indent
>      heuristics, triggerable by config or command line.
>
>   2. Post-v2.11, retire the compaction heuristic as a failed experiment.
>      Keeping it in v2.11 doesn't hurt anything (it was already
>      released), and lets us take our time coming up with and cooking the
>      patch.
>
>   3. Post-v2.11, flip the default for diff.indentHeuristic to "true".
>      Keep at least the command line option around indefinitely for
>      experimenting (i.e., "this diff looks funny; I wonder if
>      --no-indent-heuristic makes it look better").
>
>      Config option can either stay or go at that point. I have no
>      preference.
>
> The nice thing about that plan is it punts on merging any new code to
> post-v2.11. :)
OK, I can go with that plan.  Thanks for an outline.
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