Re: [PATCH 2/3] completion: remove old code

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Frans Klaver [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Felipe Contreras
[off-list ref] wrote:

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We are not talking about backwards compatibility; we are talking about
compatibility of remotes completion of the bash completion script of
repositories more than 3 years old with remotes that haven't been
migrated.

What's not backward about that?

Not all backwards compatibility issues are the same.

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This barely resembles the git-foo -> 'git foo', which truly broke
backwards compatibility, and at the time I proposed many different
approaches to deal with these type of problems, which seem to be
followed now (although probably not because of my recommendations).

But this has nothing to do with _attitude_; I am merely stating fact.
I have never expressed any opinion or attitude with respect to how
backwards compatibility should be handled in this thread, have I?

As far as I know you haven't explicitly said anything about that.
There may still be a possibility that the sentence Junio quoted in his
reply could have implied a certain attitude.

I already asked, but I ask again; what would be that attitude? Not
caring about backwards compatibility? Then that implication would have
been wrong.

If you look a few lines below, you would see a change that doesn't
break backwards compatibility, which proves the previous implication
wrong... Not to mention previous discussions.

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Maybe numbers for this could be generated from the next git user
survey. If numbers justify this change, maybe this or something like
it could be scheduled for a major release of git.

Maybe, but I doubt this issue hardly deserves much discussion.

I wouldn't know about that. Apparently not everybody is happy with
applying it without further discussion.

Jonathan Nieder is happy with the 'ls -1 "$d/remotes"' change, and I
haven't seen anybody object it.

Either way. I'm not going to discuss in this thread any more. I'll
resend the patches, feel free to comment there.

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Felipe Contreras