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been identified as more problematic to the userbase than keeping them for
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the sake of backward compatibility.
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- When necessary, transition strategy for existing users has been designed
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+ When necessary, a transition strategy for existing users has been designed
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not to force them running around setting configuration variables and
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updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour
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- or adjust to the new behaviour on the day their sysadmin decides to install
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+ or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
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the new version of git. When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
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1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
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guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
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repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.
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For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, commands that will be affected
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- have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination. If
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- you have been using recent versions of git, you would have seen
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- warnings issued when you exercised features whose behaviour will
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- change, with a clear instruction on how to keep the existing behaviour
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- if you want to. You hopefully are already well prepared.
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+ have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination, and
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+ they continue to be in this release. If you have been using recent
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+ versions of git, you would have seen warnings issued when you used
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+ features whose behaviour will change, with a clear instruction on how
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+ to keep the existing behaviour if you want to. You hopefully are
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+ already well prepared.
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Of course, we have also been giving "this and that will change in
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1.7.0; prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and
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