From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6933B1FD99 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933350AbcHWOsO (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:48:14 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:51437 "EHLO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933335AbcHWOsM (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:48:12 -0400 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBC620AB7; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:41:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:41:09 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=warpmail.net; h=cc :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=QjMpAqpYuOwni9o8pdI72TzwUW8=; b=lu6KUZ g12ykJ/aY/2kO8yPS/5QpEzMMp7+u4+K/6XHvWEbhP5+edivcGfJLJVYNQ/li2C8 TFGCGPc3OTIM2+ABjqP0srn8oyPAPnytlyXlJ1f6+bYydS9QqFbtNcaGzROhWZVH HHd6G+7k9dUNzxWWI6bu0yFmbk5RP8yXZyGys= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=QjMpAqpYuOwni9o 8pdI72TzwUW8=; b=G7tdCSGuOynIic8zTLRdFzgOpJFp8pYSWqfE0kL7LC27gMl +1u+pSiOziyEUxuJ+ROdo6KCkHHwEwILl/3ss2/XXVujVRROnMoFUFn5siZaVqiw xXarGiBXuOZdeXM8qdTofEgeXWuFu4Ov5EUtB883ZwDHaoas2OmLky4nrE2k= X-Sasl-enc: kBCy4ewh3YlPeuDFjWFhuz8QHVjeJ937ed5bcooCO8GI 1471963269 Received: from skimbleshanks.math.uni-hannover.de (skimbleshanks.math.uni-hannover.de [130.75.46.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 931A1CC07A; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3 To: Johannes Schindelin , Duy Nguyen References: Cc: Junio C Hamano , git-for-windows , Git Mailing List From: Michael J Gruber Message-ID: <2a6d2230-90ce-0f54-c7ae-a5aa595a2f73@drmicha.warpmail.net> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:41:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 23.08.2016 15:54: > Hi Duy, > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin >> wrote: >>> Hi Junio, >>> >>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> >>>> Johannes Schindelin writes: >>>> >>>>>> And then your "git cat-file" patch can be upstreamed with the option >>>>>> renamed to (or with an additional synonym) "--filters", which would make >>>>>> things consistent. >>>>> >>>>> Right. I would like to ask for a `--smudge` synonym nevertheless, just >>>>> because I already use this. On the other hand, it is early enough to tell >>>>> everybody who knows about this feature to change their invocation (anybody >>>>> who would know about `--smudge` would be in that 1% of users that have >>>>> read the release notes, so most likely would read the next release notes, >>>>> too). >>>> >>>> It is OK if it were your private edition, but you end up hurting >>>> your users if you need to redo the feature differently. >>> >>> Unfortunately, this is the situation of Git for Windows from its >>> beginning: there has not been a single time that Git for Windows could >>> live with unpatched upstream Git's source code. >>> >>> Business as usual, though. >> >> Bug fixes is one thing, features is completely different. > > Oh? Completely? > > So the core.hideDotFiles feature should have forced me to rename Git for > Windows to, say, DschoGit on Windows? > > Let's just stop here. This is getting too silly. I see more truth than silliness in Duy's suggestion. Maybe you want to re-read what you wrote to trigger his response, and consider adjusting your attitude ("I want this now so I'll release it in Git4Win") rather than the downstream name. Michael