durin42 added a comment.
I think it would make sense to defer the behavior change until we test some more. That said, I do want us to plan to make an intentionally breaking change with the out of the box grep experience *without* `tweakdefaults` enabled. My reasoning is more or less this: approximately nobody uses `hg grep` today[0] because its behavior doesn't match what users expect out of the box. I'm willing to call the current behavior a *bug*, and prominently announce that with 4.8 we expect to change the default behavior of `hg grep` to match user expectations. That's in line with the decision outlined in [1] which is old enough that mpm was part of the decision. I strongly suspect hglib will be the only meaningful breakage, and we can patch hglib to pass the -r 0:tip flag that'll give consistent behavior across all hg versions. How do we feel about that? 0: Anecdata: it's been run 25 times at work in the last 30 days over our entire userbase, which includes a number of extremely advanced users, and has been renamed to `histgrep` at Facebook for at least 4 years. 1: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GrepPlan REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3919 To: yuja, #hg-reviewers, sangeet259, pulkit Cc: durin42, mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
