On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:30:49PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Yes, it should be, but I think there will be a few user-visible fallouts > > (like "--abbrev $foo" in scripts should now be "--abbrev-default $foo" > > for safety). > > But we are on our way to fix this, no? IOW this warrants not a version > bump, but an extended feature freeze/bug fix period (like Junio suggested, > until January). I think the resolution seems to be that we will now support "--abbrev foo", though we didn't in the past. Because the "foo" here is optional, the old "git log --abbrev HEAD" is ambiguous. In this case we'll see that "HEAD" isn't a number and DWIM. But that means a script trying to be unambiguous should use "git log --abbrev-default $foo" to make sure that "$foo" doesn't accidentally match as a number. So there will be user-visible changes (though I don't expect them to be huge...there simply aren't that many variables with optional arguments). -Peff - 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
