On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Krzysztof Mazur <krzys...@podlesie.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 08:29:56AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Krzysztof Mazur wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 07:32:39AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> > > Krzysztof Mazur wrote: >> > > > >> > > > But with core.mode = next after upgrade you may experience incompatible >> > > > change without any warning. >> > > >> > > Yes, and that is actually what the user wants. I mean, why would the >> > > user set >> > > core.mode=next, if the user doesn't want to experencie incompatible >> > > changes? A >> > > user that sets this mode is expecting incompatible changes, and will be >> > > willing >> > > to test them, and report back if there's any problem with them. >> > >> > With your patch, because it's the only way to have 'git add' v2.0. >> >> Yeah, but that's not what I'm suggesting. I suggested to have *both* a >> fined-tunned way to have this behavior, say core.addremove = true, and a way >> to >> enable *all* v2.0 behaviors (core.mode = next). > > I'm just not sure if a lot of users would use core.mode=next, because > of possible different behavior without any warning. Maybe we should also > add core.mode=next-warn that changes defaults like next but keeps warnings > enabled until the user accepts that change by setting appropriate > config option? That's safer than next (at least for interactive use) and > maybe more users would use that, but I don't think that's worth adding.
I like the idea that we could kick git into a mode that applies the behaviors we're talking about having in 2.0, but I'm concerned about one aspect of it. Not having these behaviors until 2.0 hits means we're free to renege on our decisions in favor of something better, or to pull out a bad idea. But once we insert this knob, I don't know that we have the same ability. Once people realize it's there and start using it, it gets harder to back out. I guess we could maintain the stance that "the features are not concrete yet," or something like that, but I think people would still get upset if something changes out from under them. So, at the end of the day, I'm just not sure it's worthwhile to have. -John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html