Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> At present, the --global option is something of a misnomer, so >> we introduce the --user option as a synonym, with the intention >> of removing the old option in the future. > > Ack for the intention, except for "removing the old option in the future". > We do not need to advertise it, but breaking existing functionality, which > might be used by scripts and aliases is bad. > Yep, which is why I made it a synonym; git-gui uses the --global option, for example, and I'm confident that other (user) scripts use it too. The "future" I had in mind was something like 1 year down the road, but it could be longer (or forever) if necessary. Ramsay Jones - 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
