On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I started using compaction-heuristic with 2.9, and then also (or so I > thought) enabled indent-heuristic with 2.11. > Only after reading a comment in "Git rev news" I realized that these 2 > options are mutually exclusive. I then > checked the Git source code and saw that Git first checks the new > indent-heuristic and then the old compaction-heuristic. > Therefore, anyone who is as stupid as me and enabled both will always > (and silently) end up with the older of the > two. > > Apart from better documentation (I know that both are marked > experimental, but nevertheless): could we not swap the > order in which they are tested so that the newer heuristic wins? > > </nk> This seems reasonable to me. Thanks, Jake