Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 09:18:17AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > 1. Somebody produces a patch flipping the default. The patch is
>> > trivial, but the commit message should tell why, and try to dig up
>> > any possible problems we might see (e.g., why wasn't this the
>> > default? Particular versions of tools? Some platforms?)
>> [...]
>> There was no particular "caveat" raised there to recommend against
>> using this on particular versions of tools or platforms. It was
>> inertia that has kept the new optional feature "optional".
>
> Thanks for digging. That matches my recollection and the limited
> research I did more recently.
For completeness's sake I should point out that the discussion on
the first thread did point out some version-dependent issues. But
with 79c461d5 (docs: default to more modern toolset, 2010-11-19), we
declared the problematic versions obsolete; I suspect that it is
safe to assume that those who would be hurt by flipping the default
would already be extinct after 6 years since then.
>> > 2. Assuming no problems, Junio merges the patch to "next". We get
>> > any reports of issues from people using "next" day-to-day.
>>
>> So I can do these steps myself up to this point. After waiting for
>> a few days to see if somebody else with better memory tells me what
>> I forgot, perhaps.
>
> OK. I was trying to see if (1) could be low-hanging fruit for any of the
> newcomers, but at this point it probably makes sense for you to just
> write the patch.
Leaving it as low-hanging fruit is actually a good idea.
I was thinking about flipping it in Meta/dodoc.sh, which would
update the git-manpages.git repository whose mirrors are found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-manpages.git/
git://repo.or.cz/git-manpages.git/
git://github.com/gitster/git-manpages.git/
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