Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I can try to pick this up. But did we reach a decision on having a >> configuration variable? > > I am not sure, but I will say I would prefer not to have one. Surely > we can come up with a UI that does not require searching through > git-config(1) to be made convenient. > > Couldn’t we just add the option (with test and documentation) first, > to get some experience with how we end up using the two forms? > > If --full-tree does become the default, I think it should be in 1.7.0, > when it is expected for some habits to break (with a configuration > variable for the transition, I guess). This might be okay, since > constructions like 'git grep foo -- "./*.h"' should still work. The flipping of "grep" default is too late for 1.7.0, as we have only started discussing it, and I want the release after 1.6.6 to be 1.7.0. I do not think we want nor need to have other things we have already prepared and have been advertising for 1.7.0 to wait one more cycle. -- 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