From: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] completion: remove old code
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:21:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6sp9PfVTTNL218syf-MS465M+sP4E8eVxuVCHZC0geE3ezfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3a05dZqOqpDFDnWQ_C03EODgeP1eRhko-Mc8OjGXj6FQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are not talking about backwards compatibility; we are talking about
> compatibility of remotes completion of the bash completion script of
> repositories more than 3 years old with remotes that haven't been
> migrated.
What's not backward about that?
> This barely resembles the git-foo -> 'git foo', which truly broke
> backwards compatibility, and at the time I proposed many different
> approaches to deal with these type of problems, which seem to be
> followed now (although probably not because of my recommendations).
>
> But this has nothing to do with _attitude_; I am merely stating fact.
> I have never expressed any opinion or attitude with respect to how
> backwards compatibility should be handled in this thread, have I?
As far as I know you haven't explicitly said anything about that.
There may still be a possibility that the sentence Junio quoted in his
reply could have implied a certain attitude.
>> Maybe numbers for this could be generated from the next git user
>> survey. If numbers justify this change, maybe this or something like
>> it could be scheduled for a major release of git.
>
> Maybe, but I doubt this issue hardly deserves much discussion.
I wouldn't know about that. Apparently not everybody is happy with
applying it without further discussion.
Cheers,
Frans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 23:41 [PATCH 0/3] completion: trivial cleanups Felipe Contreras
2012-01-29 23:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] completion: be nicer with zsh Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 4:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 5:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 10:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 10:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 18:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-29 23:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] completion: remove old code Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 2:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 3:24 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 3:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 4:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 10:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 11:19 ` Frans Klaver
2012-01-30 11:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 12:21 ` Frans Klaver [this message]
2012-01-30 13:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 14:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-29 23:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] completion: remove unused code Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 2:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 3:29 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-30 3:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 7:44 ` Thomas Rast
2012-01-30 8:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 10:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 13:19 ` Thomas Rast
2012-01-30 13:51 ` Felipe Contreras
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