From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:10:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--"
Message-ID: <xmqqvbyxwx1q.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131209205621.GW29959@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> But if we cook it for a while, I suspect that we will find more and
>> more breakages of expectations in the existing scripts in and out of
>> the tree;
>
> Alas, probably no, because nobody has "HEAD~3..HEAD" in their working
> directory.  That's exactly the problem --- it creates an edge case
> that nobody is likely to test...

I didn't mean to say that running and encoutering the issue is the
only way to find "more breakges of expectations", by the way.  I am
still on the fence, but leaning towards not merging it too hastily.