On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are taking that route for 1.7.0 to warn very loudly about pushing into > the currently checked-out branch in 1.6.2 and onwards. We may now find > out that people hate a loud deprecation period. Then what? The problem is not the 'loud deprecation period' it's the deprecation itself. You cannot avoid deprecation, so you cannot avoid users complaining, but you can avoid surprises, and that's what the 'loud deprecation period' is for. The 'loud deprecation period' allows users to find out *earlier* so that they can comment on the issue. If a huge amount of users complain, maybe the deprecation should not proceed, or maybe someone comes up with a plan B. Sill, some people would not be happy, but at least their voice would have been heard. Sure, it doesn't matter how it's handled, some people will still not be happy... -- Felipe Contreras -- 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
