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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git grep: search whole tree by default?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:31:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk3h3pywt.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjpzg592.fsf@mcs.anl.gov> (Jed Brown's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:24:25 -0500")

Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> writes:
>>
>>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>>> I suspect that it would be too late for 2.0 we want to do sometime
>>>> early next year, though.
>>>
>>> How would you manage transition from the current behavior?  Warning
>>> people to explicitly use "." or ":/" during some interim period sounds
>>> worse than just switching the default behavior.
>>
>> "How would I"?
>>
>> You're asking that question only because you omitted too much from
>> the quote ;-)
>
> I meant that if the proposed migration plan were to be "just change it
> and people will learn" (because anything more gradual would actually be
> worse for users) then is it really too late for Git-2.0?

I do not know it that is even a workable plan, but I need to sleep
on it and then hear opinion from others, but in general, if anybody
needs to ask if it is too late, then it already is.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  8:25 git grep: search whole tree by default? Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-10-23 16:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-10-23 17:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 18:20     ` Jed Brown
2013-10-23 18:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 19:24         ` Jed Brown
2013-10-23 19:31           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-10-24  2:15             ` David Aguilar
2013-10-23 20:43           ` Matthieu Moy
2013-10-24  2:27             ` Jeff King
2013-10-24 19:40               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25  2:23                 ` David Aguilar
2013-10-25  4:37                 ` Jeff King
2013-10-25  4:52                   ` Duy Nguyen

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