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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC variant 2 of 2] "needs update" considered harmful
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:41:25 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807201435450.3305@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720112957.GE32184@machine.or.cz>

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

> Scripts need to be modified for the reorganization anyway,

No.  They do not, if the 1st variant is applied.

> and I'm not sure if there are any actually depening on this particular 
> string.

That is the question, isn't it?  You would never know.  Many people, 
strange as it sounds, do not write to this list when they encounter 
problems with Git.  They vent on their blogs, not giving us a chance, and 
other people comment "Me too"s.

One of the most important features of Git used to be its scriptability, 
and I think that many hackers just love Git for it, even new hackers.

So it is probably not unheard of that someone wrote an update hook or a 
cronjob using the output of "update-index --refresh".

But those people are probably not on this list, or not following every 
thread, or they even forgot how/that they implemented such a hook/cronjob.

Ergo: we would not know if scripts break.  Until it is too late.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-20 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-20  6:31 [PATCH] refresh-index: fix bitmask assignment Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20  7:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20  7:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20  7:48     ` [RFC] "needs update" considered harmful Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 18:17       ` Jay Soffian
2008-07-20  7:48 ` [RFC variant 1 of 2] " Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20  7:48 ` [RFC variant 2 " Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 11:29   ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 12:41     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-20 19:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 17:27         ` Jay Soffian
2008-07-20 14:03     ` André Goddard Rosa

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