On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 13:33 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I just can't understand the > > resistance to this safety feature. People who encounter the bug can > > just change the setting and move on... it seems like an argument based > > on "principles", usually a sign that one has run out of actual > > arguments.. > > There is no resitance to any safety feature. The resistance is to > something entirely different. [...] > Perhaps you already forgot the fiasco after 1.6.0, which moved tons of > git-foo scripts out of the users' way. It resulted in a better layout in > the end, but we knew it would break people's working setup from the > beginning. [...] Yeah sure but the changes are a bit different aren't they. One affected all users who used the previously documented way to access subcommands (and the names that the man pages all still retain). The other affects a small number of users who are doing something which is labeled in many places as a bad thing to want to do. That being said, I think I like the copy and design of the patch you just posted. If the path of caution is to be followed for this, then the way you propose seems a good way to do it. Sam -- 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
