Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)

John Keeping wrote:

The Mercurial API makes no such guarantee; it is considered a private
implementation detail and most releases seem to contain some changes
that require all consumers to be updated.

There is a different level of urgency between "you cannot use this new
feature until you update Git" and "if you update Mercurial then the
remote helper will stop working",

s/the remote helper will stop working/certain features of the remote
helper *might* stop working, but we are trying hard to make sure that
doesn't happen/

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Felipe Contreras