Re: 2.11.0-rc1 will not be tagged for a few days

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I think we also need to make a final decision on the indent/compaction
heuristic naming. After reading Michael's [0], and the claim by you and
Stefan that the "compaction" name was declared sufficiently experimental
that we could later take it away, I'm inclined to follow this plan:

  1. Ship v2.11 with what is in master; i.e., both compaction and indent
     heuristics, triggerable by config or command line.

  2. Post-v2.11, retire the compaction heuristic as a failed experiment.
     Keeping it in v2.11 doesn't hurt anything (it was already
     released), and lets us take our time coming up with and cooking the
     patch.

  3. Post-v2.11, flip the default for diff.indentHeuristic to "true".
     Keep at least the command line option around indefinitely for
     experimenting (i.e., "this diff looks funny; I wonder if
     --no-indent-heuristic makes it look better").

     Config option can either stay or go at that point. I have no
     preference.

The nice thing about that plan is it punts on merging any new code to
post-v2.11. :)

OK, I can go with that plan.  Thanks for an outline.