On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jed Brown <jed@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Jed Brown <jed@xxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> I suspect that it would be too late for 2.0 we want to do sometime >>>>> early next year, though. >>>> >>>> How would you manage transition from the current behavior? Warning >>>> people to explicitly use "." or ":/" during some interim period sounds >>>> worse than just switching the default behavior. >>> >>> "How would I"? >>> >>> You're asking that question only because you omitted too much from >>> the quote ;-) >> >> I meant that if the proposed migration plan were to be "just change it >> and people will learn" (because anything more gradual would actually be >> worse for users) then is it really too late for Git-2.0? > > I do not know it that is even a workable plan, but I need to sleep > on it and then hear opinion from others, but in general, if anybody > needs to ask if it is too late, then it already is. Making grep tree-wide would be very welcome here. IMO Git-2.0 *feels* like a good time to change the default since there's relatively little downside to doing so, but "early next year" is not very long to wait either; it doesn't seem like there's a strong reason to rush this in. -- David -- 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