On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Come to think of it, that is really the same distaste I had against both > "diff --no-index" and "grep --no-index". We know adding our enhancements > over non-git versions of these programs is a better gift to the outside > world, but we instead added the --no-index mode to Git to only keep the > benefit to ourselves, because it is far easier for us to do so. Exactly. Some people like me also benefit from the popularity of Git. If it's (likely) installed, I get many extra features for free. There are machines that I'm not allowed to install new stuff on. If it comes with BSD "column", not too bad. If not arghhh. -- 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