Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility

Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:07:28AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] told me that...

I raised the following issues in my previous messages but did
not hear many opinions [*1*].  I do not want to take it as a
blank check from the community to do whatever I please.  So here
is a recap.

When I'm active on the mailing list, you can be sure that I'd complain
if I didn't like it. ;-)

 * Tools renaming plan calls for removal of the backward
   compatible command names (e.g. git-fsck-cache and
   git-update-cache) sometime in the future.  This is scheduled
   for 0.99.8 around beginning of October.  If somebody wants
   extended amnesty period, this can be pushed back but unless I
   hear otherwise...

I think the start of October is fine for Cogito. Cogito users usually
upgrade both Cogito and GIT at once, it seems.

 * After reviewing the current set of commands, the following do
   not seem to be useful anymore; Linus said he feels they can
   go, and nobody else objected:

   git-diff-helper git-diff-stages git-export git-rev-tree

   I'd like to remove them before 1.0, and planning to do it
   within the 0.99.8 timeframe unless I hear otherwise.

Cogito does not use any of those.

 * After Brian Gerst posted a patch to show 'modified' files in
   ls-files [*2*], there was a brief discussion to change the
   tagged output markings to make them more readable, but
   neither Cogito nor StGIT seems to use tagged output.  I am
   currently thinking about removing '-t' altogether.

   Again, unless I hear otherwise, I'd like to remove it within
   the 0.99.8 timeframe.

Well, if it should be kept, it should certainly be in sync with
git-diff-* tag letters. But Cogito uses only the diff tag letters and
I'm not sure if tag letters for all files in repository would really be
useful for anything.

[Footnote]

*1* Well, Pasky indicated he does not like some of the terms in
the glossary in his recent Cogito release announcement, but that
was unfortunately after the fact.

Yes. I would complain loudly during the discussion, but I unwisely
skipped it at first and then didn't read the list for a few weeks.
My fault, I have to make the best way out of the terminology mess I'm
in now.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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