Junio C Hamano wrote:
You preach to the choir. That is exactly how we work and what people have been working hard for 1.7.0. Check the planned changes listed in the recent (and not so recent) "What's cooking" summary reports.
Yes, I guess my only point here was that maybe even 1.7 is not enough of a "Big Deal" (in the eyes of the public) to warrant breaking scripts. A 2.0 version would be a more visible way to say "Hey test your scripts before upgrading". Adopting a strategy like that would mean making backwards incompatible changes a lot let frequently, but when we do we go for broke.
Changing "grep" is too late for 1.7.0, but we are trying to find an easy migration path like you mentioned in your message and that is exactly what this thread is about.
I wasn't actually suggesting we change grep for 1.7. As a matter of fact, my personal opinion (which I probably neglected to mention) is that grep default behavior should stay the same since it is semantically closer to unix (or gnu) grep. -- Uri Please consider the environment before printing this message. http://www.panda.org/how_you_can_help/ -- 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