From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59D91FD99 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753904AbcHWNyv (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:54:51 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:55241 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbcHWNyu (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:54:50 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.141.250]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MWwp6-1bfRFP2T4O-00Vu5V; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:54:03 +0200 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:54:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Duy Nguyen cc: Junio C Hamano , git-for-windows , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: [git-for-windows] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:3NabwPT2n/J0FJ+cUyrbfpVMZz9ppypwZiP++hmhdxkUczqbKfp ukaECFRKsHgPAgRrVOxEHvrK+ezizHrDo3mMx8q6u9FacKYSySyAAeJaONN1RxPbwGHoM8A h/oeYSW7vrTj75FLWjg4C/BwlxVYrHNZjtONvbYZsN3RGcg6LdcNqQQpMR7tpuoeqjd6C07 q4lj1ep/tfVD9vUIz2lVw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ToBS/UdigfE=:hWGQTHKzldKgKW1dHse/uX 0t0yuC1RmV0TbiuKlgD9lv6srsy0GORJHrcwXRUrVyuf5YbiByruUDVoZB4bFAsZfi8iEFkfV 0Nz6KQpjEz68Zm8s3wRWzH8oEEfkKKxTM7a0FP85VL2JQItDALMmqG6K1Mdnd0PzMCmSLbxQw +rxlJIgLy5hdJssOBH0BcFxZMEzbUZjqWreE4yGPx3ApeQTJV7AtL1xDIIVZAt9i9O/bC3Ous mRxSKowIGFWlrKMhfBnM7bvfBOaBLQsyEJg7UqV1t04bnR5P71dBH/IsPvk6X2PgOPf15kDpQ k4pKhNER4C1uIew+vSNsOB3Kf3bk36/02BOZ0c9O36MBo/zWhSZy8yLB3EWmECiMijZUEaebg QuRNcV6VPBookGfUgzFNIMN0LKd8Hoz4r84hCLRTDIl+t+IvrJ7k9HvTxRxvfOym05/024pjf IJx0ZRF5W2IOnhY35/qreklgv2otvPDsQOt9B1/PtQRNY25ySyJZgnlWkR8phWFMzMc3i9YVf 3BI+cLWNQRiU+29WtLhry+oYZ0f0BMhrfe50oBHrEIkhoAcGnrrOsfqn0AZaT8tx4RwYAJZw8 nvBHFCaSdVmRgch7kMI40t0jvoncjmwHil7g6BGMe8dwP7i7fkX5v7/qjQUeSz14vPR/r8uoS EPzmwDTCg9QRAXktg3PpY+zlQZ7EfSr5yBHECZbumhiZI5oKoUo7zFeGI1KzRRgR/k2ObqYpC nCtzbFQy2JJxBDZ7S+akCStKrQcXNQWIGjUy978Cjlg+4zutvc1ylmhF7CsA+7K9MMWfpwnpZ ncjl1de Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Duy, On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: > > Hi Junio, > > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> Johannes Schindelin writes: > >> > >> >> And then your "git cat-file" patch can be upstreamed with the option > >> >> renamed to (or with an additional synonym) "--filters", which would make > >> >> things consistent. > >> > > >> > Right. I would like to ask for a `--smudge` synonym nevertheless, just > >> > because I already use this. On the other hand, it is early enough to tell > >> > everybody who knows about this feature to change their invocation (anybody > >> > who would know about `--smudge` would be in that 1% of users that have > >> > read the release notes, so most likely would read the next release notes, > >> > too). > >> > >> It is OK if it were your private edition, but you end up hurting > >> your users if you need to redo the feature differently. > > > > Unfortunately, this is the situation of Git for Windows from its > > beginning: there has not been a single time that Git for Windows could > > live with unpatched upstream Git's source code. > > > > Business as usual, though. > > Bug fixes is one thing, features is completely different. Oh? Completely? So the core.hideDotFiles feature should have forced me to rename Git for Windows to, say, DschoGit on Windows? Let's just stop here. This is getting too silly. Ciao, Dscho