Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 23.08.2016 15:54:
Hi Duy,
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:
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Hi Junio,
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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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.
Unfortunately, this is the situation of Git for Windows from its
beginning: there has not been a single time that Git for Windows could
live with unpatched upstream Git's source code.
Business as usual, though.
Bug fixes is one thing, features is completely different.
Oh? Completely?
So the core.hideDotFiles feature should have forced me to rename Git for
Windows to, say, DschoGit on Windows?
Let's just stop here. This is getting too silly.
I see more truth than silliness in Duy's suggestion. Maybe you want to
re-read what you wrote to trigger his response, and consider adjusting
your attitude ("I want this now so I'll release it in Git4Win") rather
than the downstream name.
Michael