Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Please don't treat this as an attempt to be argumentative:... > > I won't. I asked you what I didn't understand in what you said. > Answering the question is not being argumentative ;-) > >> What's relevant is not whether the script author was in the wrong or >> in the right. > > I do not agree with this reasoning at all. Only if vast majority of > users incorrectly used the command and the option, we may need to > consider such a move as an exception, but not as a general rule. > > But "stash list" example shows that "log --first-parent -m" without > "-p" in a script has a valid reason, and a change that hurts those > who correctly used a command and an option in a way they were > intended to do _is_ problematic. The patch never meant to be entirely backward compatible in the first place, and, as far as I can see, "log --first-parent -m" doesn't make sense anymore, since --fist-parent implies -m, that has been settled already. Thanks, Sergey Organov
