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From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] send-email: prompt-dependent exit codes
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 21:11:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZNKTXPVK1p1oHhtE@ugly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmsz1a547.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:08:56AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>This behaviour change is, even among Git developers, not a bugfix but 
>is a new feature that not everybody would want to be subjected to.
>
that's debatable, depending on one's expectations. at the very least 
it's an enabler for bugfixes.

>It always is the safest to make such a backward incompatible change a 
>strictly opt-in feature.
>
well, yes. the question is whether we expect non-trivial problems 
arising from imposing it on unsuspecting users. and given that there is 
an (opportunity) cost of having it opt-in only, there is a trade-off. my 
gut feeling is that having it always-on is probably better.

regards

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-08 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-26  6:16 [PATCH v2] send-email: prompt-dependent exit codes Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-27 15:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-02 19:04   ` Felipe Contreras
2023-08-07 16:58   ` [PATCH v3] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-07 18:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-08 10:55       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-08 16:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-08 19:11           ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2023-08-09 17:15           ` [PATCH v4] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-09 19:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-10 10:00               ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-10 19:56                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 12:11                   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 17:07                   ` [PATCH v5] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 17:57                     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-21 18:57                       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-30  0:46                     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-30 10:06                       ` Oswald Buddenhagen

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