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Message-ID: <20120312185440.GA21817@burratino>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:54:40 -0500
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@....ethz.ch>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	git@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Rast <trast@...dent.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches
 (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)

Willy Tarreau wrote:

> From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users
> tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice,
> not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect
> most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So
> I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option.

The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early
adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped
working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to
worry about others who have started to rely on the option.

Regards,
Jonathan
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