Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Like you said, I do not want to contaminate this series with such an
unrelated change. Worse, you are trying to break a sane default by
replacing it with "anything goes".
We already have a sane default, which is to error out. We do not
need your broken default.
This came out as a bit stronger than I wanted to. Add to the last:
Even if we later find out that changing the default to loosen it
to "anything goes" is a good idea, I do not think it belongs to
this series.