Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Isn't this essentially breaking a contract To clarify, if there were some strong motivation --- e.g. if this were resolving some security problem --- then I would be all for breaking compatibility in this way. What's confusing to me is that I just don't see the motivation. Why wouldn't someone that wants this functionality be able to pass a flag for it? Is the idea that without a flag it's easier to teach or something? Hoping that clarifies, Jonathan -- 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