Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins [LWN.net]

From:		Petr Baudis <pasky-AT-suse.cz>
To:		Perry Wagle <wagle-AT-cs.indiana.edu>
Subject:		Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Date:		Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:53:35 +0200
Message-ID:		<20080828215335.GA10360@machine.or.cz>
Cc:		Jeff King <peff-AT-peff.net>, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen-AT-iki.fi>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>, Kristian H??gsberg <krh-AT-redhat.com>, Matthias Kestenholz <mk-AT-spinlock.ch>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt-AT-goodmis.org>, Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl-AT-rz.uni-regensburg.DE>, Andi Kleen <andi-AT-firstfloor.org>, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin-AT-gmx.de>, Junio C Hamano <gitster-AT-pobox.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2-AT-infradead.org>, git-AT-vger.kernel.org
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It's getting repetitive. :-(

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:41:52PM -0700, Perry Wagle wrote:
> I now have to TEST to find those crazy backwards-incompatibility bugs 
> before I can upgrade us to 1.6.0.  To test, I have to try to imagine what I 
> and others were assuming about git.  And this episode means that I can't 
> make any assumptions about the sanity of any changes since March, which is 
> the version I'm thinking of upgrading.

All changes of this kind, including this one, should be carefully
described in the release notes. Since you say you are effectively a Git
packager, you really should be one of the persons who do actually read
them. :-)

You can't ask us to stop making any incompatible changes - Git is still
too young for that and it's UI got evolved, not designed. But we do
document the changes we do, even though we might do a better job
*spreading* the word.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis

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