[PATCH 2 of 2] The graphlog extension no longer uses the short option (-g)

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Thu Feb 12 09:12:44 CST 2009


Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 14:56, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wrote:
>   
>> By the way, is there any reason why --git is not the default setting in
>> hg?
>>     
>
> This is explained in hg help diffs.
>   

So the roadmap for getting the default changed starts with improving GNU 
patch to support the git format and then wait some years for that 
version to be used everywhere. Other tools might have to be fixed too. 
Next step is to get a Mercurial default changed. because of the focus on 
backward compatibility that might be the hardest part.

/Mads


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