Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 21, 2011 8:35 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by neilbrown
Parent article: Quotes of the week

There is no need for any transition period.

Is this pre-git tradition, perhaps, dating from the days when carrying forward great big fixup patches was really, really, unpleasant, so you had a reason to push as much as possible upstream even before the API conversion work was done?