On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 03:44:08PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I threw this topic in stalled category, hoping that one or the other > opinion eventually turns out to be more prevalent, but it didn't > seem to have happened X-<. I think it's sufficiently obscure that nobody really cares. I admit that _I_ don't actually care myself. We should fix the BUG(), obviously, but between the two I could live with it either way. Mostly I didn't want to go to the work to write the patch for the direction that I didn't think was right, and was hoping Jonathan would if he felt strongly about it. > So I think the right endgame in the longer term is: I won't quote the rest of your message because I agree with it completely, in terms of the endgame we'd like to see. I'll address a few specific comments on your followup patch. -Peff