"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yea, 1.7 may be safer for this, but also many scripts are based > on the GIT-VERSION-GEN in git.git which uses HEAD as an explicit > argument. So they might actually be OK with this change. Well, from my cursory look of its scripts/setlocalversion, even the Linux kernel is not safe X-<. I still haven't heard anything that helps me to decide which way the default should be. The only concrete thing I have heard against the change of the default is that it will break existing setup, but I haven't heard anything concrete for the change yet. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html