Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.9.3

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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And then your "git cat-file" patch can be upstreamed with the option
renamed to (or with an additional synonym) "--filters", which would make
things consistent.

Right. I would like to ask for a `--smudge` synonym nevertheless, just
because I already use this. On the other hand, it is early enough to tell
everybody who knows about this feature to change their invocation (anybody
who would know about `--smudge` would be in that 1% of users that have
read the release notes, so most likely would read the next release notes,
too).

It is OK if it were your private edition, but you end up hurting
your users if you need to redo the feature differently.

That's the price of your using open source and taking a short-cut.
Adding a "--smudge" synonym is spreading the same hurt to outside
your fork.  Let's see if we can avoid doing that.  Perhaps mark that
"--smudge" as experimental-and-subject-to-change and re-announce?