Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> But if we cook it for a while, I suspect that we will find more and >> more breakages of expectations in the existing scripts in and out of >> the tree; > > Alas, probably no, because nobody has "HEAD~3..HEAD" in their working > directory. That's exactly the problem --- it creates an edge case > that nobody is likely to test... I didn't mean to say that running and encoutering the issue is the only way to find "more breakges of expectations", by the way. I am still on the fence, but leaning towards not merging it too hastily. -- 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