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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why does 'submodule add' stage the relevant portions?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:36:46 +0530
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Okay, I'm confused: why are you waiting for 2.0 to change push.default
>> then?  Isn't that just a "slightly better default at the porcelain
>> level" and hence a "regular enhancement"?
>
> No.  Among other aspects, "git push" is used heavily by scripts.

Oh, I see.  I would've expected scripts to specify the refspec
explicitly, instead of relying on a default like this.  Then again, I
saw jc/push-2.0-default-to-simple -- massive changes to scripts in our
own testsuite.

This whole "backward compatibility" thing is not black-or-white: it's
shades of gray.  Can I ask about how "backward incompatible" the other
suggestions I listed were, just so I get a rough idea of your scale?
Junio seems to be very extremist today.