Hi,

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:16:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > > The FAQ even says "don't do this until you know what you are doing." 
> > > So the safety valve is configurable, so that those who know what 
> > > they are doing can switch it off.
> > 
> > "We are breaking your existing working setup but you can add a new 
> > configuration to unbreak it" should not be done lightly.  I think as 
> > the end result it is a reasonable thing to aim for for this particular 
> > feature, but we do need a transition plan patch in between that 
> > introduces a step that warns but not forbids.  We can ship 1.6.1 with 
> > it and then switch the default to forbid in 1.6.3, for example.
> 
> Yeah, I was kind of hoping we could assume that anybody relying on this
> behavior was somewhat insane, and wouldn't be too upset when it broke.

I think I have a repository with "git read-tree -u -m HEAD" as update hook 
for that kind of behavior.

But I will not be the person responsible to keep that behavior, if I am 
the only one relying on it.

I very much like the approach of defaulting to "warn" for quite some time 
(but setting the variable to "refuse" in git-init) and then adapt the 
default after some time.

Ciao,
Dscho
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