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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: huebbe <nathanael.huebbe@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
	stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: Incorrect stripping of the [PATCH] prefix in git-am
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:10:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZ8WLzwvsSPCgt4ncfqib479mXuDWQ5cLj0QjmZmR439g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202005826.GE28197@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:59:35PM +0100, huebbe wrote:
>
>> Yes, it looks like the `--keep-non-patch` option works around this.
>>
>> However, shouldn't that be the default behaviour?
>> I mean, what is the point in stripping stuff that is not proven to be inserted by `git` itself?
>> That's not what I expect a tool to do which I trust.
>
> The "[]" convention is a microformat used by Linux kernel folks. So it's
> not "whoops, we are stripping stuff not added by git". It is respecting
> a microformat used by the tool's authors.
>
> That being said, if we were choosing a default from scratch today, it
> might go the other way. But we aren't, and we have to deal with the
> burden of breaking existing scripts by flipping it.

Do we as the Git community have a place where we take notes for version 3?

This sounds perfectly fine (to me at least) to change the default with a major
version number as the changelog for major version numbers may even be read
by kernel devs maintaining such scripts ;)

Or could we even patch that today to have `--keep-non-patch` be default
later on by checking for our version number ourselves and deciding upon that
for the default?

>
> -Peff
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-25 15:29 Bug: Incorrect stripping of the [PATCH] prefix in git-am huebbe
2015-11-25 15:44 ` stefan.naewe
2015-11-25 15:59   ` huebbe
2015-12-02  0:58     ` Jeff King
2015-12-02  1:10       ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2015-12-02  2:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-02  2:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-02 12:38       ` huebbe
2015-12-02 15:49         ` Jeff King
2015-12-03 10:32           ` huebbe

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