Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I can think of two other user-visible changes which have been discussed
that might warrant such a version bump:

  - option parsing tweaks (hopefully these should be minor, but it is
    clear that we cannot be 100% consistent while retaining the
    identical previous behavior)

This could have a fallout, like *-default disambiguation which scripts
did not have to implement.

  - moving dashed forms out of paths

This is already planned for 1.5.5 and it is not among "other
user-visible changes".  Technically the use of git-foo form without
preparing the environment has not been supported for quite some time,
but people have come to rely on it and I'd agree this warrants a 1.6.0.