From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:30:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071218193035.GA4583@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712181329340.23902@racer.site>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-02 22:04 v1.5.4 plans Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 22:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-02 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 23:39 ` David Symonds
2007-12-03 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 10:00 ` Many things pushed out to 'master' Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 11:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 18:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 22:44 ` [PATCH] fast-export: rename the signed tag mode 'ignore' to 'verbatim' Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 22:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 9:06 ` [PATCH] Fix quote_path when called with negative length Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-03 17:18 ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 18:06 ` v1.5.4 plans Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-03 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 3:32 ` [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 5:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 13:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 12:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14 13:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 21:52 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-14 22:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 22:39 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-14 22:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-15 0:42 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-15 1:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-15 1:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-15 1:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-15 2:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 20:09 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-17 20:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:13 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-17 21:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 21:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:57 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 22:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 22:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 22:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 0:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 23:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 21:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 2:23 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-12-18 3:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 3:52 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-18 4:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 5:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 9:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-18 12:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 14:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 11:11 ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 12:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 12:48 ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 13:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:30 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-12-18 20:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 13:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-18 20:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 2:15 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-12-18 3:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-04 0:48 ` v1.5.4 plans Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-14 11:28 [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes linux
2007-12-14 15:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
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