On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:48:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > We probably want a patch to the release notes to note that it's not on > > by default. And we may want to advertise the experimental knob so > > that people actually try it (otherwise we won't get feedback from the > > masses). > > OK, I think that is sensible. The interdiff is not a strict > reversion of 77085a61 (diff: undocument the compaction heuristic > knobs for experimentation, 2016-05-02) but stresses that the > feature is off by default and is experimental. Looks good to me. Do we want to include in "experimental" that the option and command-line flag might go away in the future? I think probably not. I do not mind supporting this forever (it _has_ shown its usefulness, so I don't think it is any worse to maintain going forward than things like --patience, which people can tweak if their diff looks uglier than they would like). -Peff -- 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