Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think that both the ultimate goal explained above, and the direction in > which the documentation updates tries to move us, are good. I only gave a > cursory look at the code changes, but what they implement seems to match > the intention. > > Of course I may be missing something, so objections from others to argue > why we shouldn't do this is very much welcomed to stop me and Clemens ;-). Let's start with the obvious. It is much easier for a user to use a new option on the command line when he wants to use an improved behaviour when he runs the command manually. Having to update scripts that run the command to act on its output, on the other hand, is much more painful to the users. And the intended audience for this change clearly is interactive users that follow the user-manual to try things out. Given that, isn't it not just sufficient but actually better to instead add a new --no-dangling option and keep the default unchanged? -- 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