On 11 February 2016 at 11:31, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So it should suffice to mention it in the release notes as one > bullet item that describes one positive change, among all other > updates described in a simlar way. And there is no special > "warnings for existing users" necessary, I would say. It's unlikely anyone would move the merged window to the top as a preference only without being aware of the original inconsistency. If someone has been using a workaround, it would be fairly obvious as to what has changed, and definitely more so than when they first encountered the original behavior. Any adjustments to the new behavior would probably be a workflow change rather than a system configuration or scripting change. -- 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