From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes•page>,
git@vger•kernel.org, rsch@web•de, michael.grossfeld@amd•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alias: restore support for simple dotted aliases
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 20:44:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519004458.GC1612961@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbjelp7ab.fsf@gitster.g>
On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 01:43:08PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes•page> writes:
>
> > Sorry, that wasn't a "hey we should deprecate this" code-wise, I was
> > asking from a documentation point of view, i.e. was curious how you felt
> > about what is "advisable". Shouldn't've included that in my email
>
> After this, the discussion went dark, but I think everything that
> needs saying has been said and we are in agreement that the current
> patch is a good way forward without closing doors for the future too
> tightly ;-) Let me mark the topic for 'next'.
Yeah, sorry I didn't respond to Jonatan. I think the patch as-is is
fine, and if we want to push people towards the new form in the
documentation, that can be done separately.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-23 18:19 Bug: Hierarchical Aliases no longer work in 2.54.0 Grossfeld, Michael
2026-04-23 21:12 ` Jeff King
2026-04-23 22:55 ` Michael Grossfeld
2026-04-23 21:36 ` René Scharfe
2026-04-23 22:46 ` Michael Grossfeld
2026-04-24 7:29 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-04-24 15:10 ` [PATCH] alias: restore support for simple dotted aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-04-24 16:09 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-04-24 22:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-25 9:57 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-04-25 23:29 ` Jeff King
2026-04-25 23:47 ` Jeff King
2026-04-26 19:21 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-04-26 23:01 ` Jeff King
2026-04-27 8:36 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-05-12 4:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-19 0:44 ` Jeff King [this message]
2026-04-24 16:17 ` Jonatan Holmgren
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