Re: Future suggestion's to assist with changes to git.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:59:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

That would help compared to doing nothing, but many people who complained
in the first thread (this is the third one, by the way) was k.org users
who used a machine somebody else installs the software for them.  Messages
during installation would not help those people.

I think this can be generalized to "messages from the maintainer of your
systems". In the case of single-user installs, a message from the
package maintainer is appropriate. For a multi-user system, I would
expect a message from the admin to all of the users of the software.

This is arguable.  People would have get annoying messages thrown into
their mailbox from their cron jobs, even before the switchover happened,
which effectively means that we move the whining period from now back to
the beginning of the deprecation period -- it won't reduce the amount of
actual whining.

Personally, I would rather have my task succeed with a little extra spew
to stderr than to fail completely. And that would get the people who
were against the change involved in the discussion at a much earlier
point.

-Peff