On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 01:02:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Given that t/README explicitly shows examples of space-separated lists > > of numbers, I'm worried we're breaking long-built expectations of > > other developers by changing IFS here. Perhaps I could instead add > > the following paragraph to t/README: > > Unlike something that would affect end-users, I think it is OK to > break backward compatibility one-way. If you suddenly forbid spaces > and force our developers to use comma and nothing else, in muscle > memory of their fingers and/or in their scripts, in a version merged > to 'master', as long as their new habit and updated scripts use > comma consistently, they work fine on 'maint', right? > > If there is no such "works on both sides of the flag day" choice, it > is a different story, of course, but comma should work fine for us > in this case. I was just about to write the same argument. :) -Peff
