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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:27:38 -0600
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Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:18:53PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > No.  I'm effectively saying that *you shouldn't break backwards
> > compatibility*.  Ever.  It only annoys people.
> 
> This is something that comes out of a male cow, and from his back exit.

OK, I'm done.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."