Re: [PATCH 8/9] for-each-ref: add option to fully dereference tags

Victoria Dye [off-list ref] writes:

I can (and would like to) deprecate the "peel once" behavior and replace it
with "peel all", but with how long it's been around and the potential
performance impact, such a change should probably be clearly communicated.

I've written a fairly detailed response on this about the reason why
I think that "leave a mention in the backward compatibility notes
section of the release notes" (your #1) is sufficient, but it seems
to have been lost in the ether.  I'll wait a bit and if the previous
response does not materialize, I may type it again.

But in addition to what I wrote there, there is this thread [*] from
2019 that indicates that our position is to mildly discourage
tag-to-tag in the first place.


[Reference]

* https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190404020226.GG4409@sigill.intra.peff.net/ (local)