Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #06; Wed, 25)

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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I can try to pick this up. But did we reach a decision on having a
configuration variable?

I am not sure, but I will say I would prefer not to have one.  Surely
we can come up with a UI that does not require searching through
git-config(1) to be made convenient.

Couldn’t we just add the option (with test and documentation) first,
to get some experience with how we end up using the two forms?  

If --full-tree does become the default, I think it should be in 1.7.0,
when it is expected for some habits to break (with a configuration
variable for the transition, I guess).  This might be okay, since
constructions like 'git grep foo -- "./*.h"' should still work.

The flipping of "grep" default is too late for 1.7.0, as we have only
started discussing it, and I want the release after 1.6.6 to be 1.7.0.

I do not think we want nor need to have other things we have already
prepared and have been advertising for 1.7.0 to wait one more cycle.