Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: F> Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It's nice we've reached mutual understanding! > > Yes, and thanks for correcting me. > >> The only remaining issue then is if we just go and do the change of -m >> semantics, or do we need to take some backward compatibility measures? >> Looks like we are rather safe to just go, as it's unlikely there will be >> any real breakage. What do you think? > > I still wish I could come up with the usual backward compatibility > transition dance for this case, but I do not think there is one. Fine, thanks, so I'll prepare and submit a patch. > > However. > > If "-m" were doing a more useful thing than "compare with each > parent separately", people may have aliased "log -m" to something so > that their "git aliased-log" and "git aliased-log -p" would work > better for them than "git log" and "git log -p", but quite honestly, > I do not think "git log -m -p" output is readable by humans (after > all, that is why we invented -c and --cc), so the population that > get hit by this incompatible change may be very tiny minority in > relative terms. Well, honestly, I can't even come up with an alias that would break by this change, but it's likely I'm just not creative enough :) Thanks, -- Sergey Organov
