On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heya, > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:46, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Â* Ship this as 1.7.X and see how well the new feature is accepted in the >> Â wider user community. ÂIf the feature is not widely used, there is no >> Â point in proceeding further. > > I'm confused, I thought we were doing this for consistency reasons? > That would benefit mostly new users, right? New users, which are > unlikely to notice this new feature, or report to this list that they > find it useful? I think the purpose is to see if this benefits current user base first, which is large enough. If it beats the user base hard, it's not worth adding even for consistency. Unfortunately not all of us users reads release notes. I don't know how we know it's widely used. Putting something like this in docs? "This is experimental. If you use it and like it, raise your voice in git@ver" -- Duy -- 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