From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:42:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'
Message-ID: <xmqqy29chim6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YQ7MGoNswyZJHjkZ@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Please don't treat this as an attempt to be argumentative:...

I won't.  I asked you what I didn't understand in what you said.
Answering the question is not being argumentative ;-)

> What's relevant is not whether the script author was in the wrong or
> in the right.

I do not agree with this reasoning at all.  Only if vast majority of
users incorrectly used the command and the option, we may need to
consider such a move as an exception, but not as a general rule.

But "stash list" example shows that "log --first-parent -m" without
"-p" in a script has a valid reason, and a change that hurts those
who correctly used a command and an option in a way they were
intended to do _is_ problematic.

Thanks.