You can certainly do this, as I said, this is Google's backup plan. But defaults matter. People will start running this and getting repos that are uselessly incompatible with other repos, tools, libraries and server instances. Having it as an option is one thing. Making it a default will cause a lot of pain for people who don't want to care about this.

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ltbarcly3 9 hours ago | parent [-]

"defaults matter" is an argument for this change, not against it.

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schacon 9 hours ago | parent [-]

No, my argument is that the change should not happen at all and nobody wants it and it gains the community very, very little but the default change is forcing it on everyone and most will be _entirely_ unaware - now having to solve problems that are difficult to understand. Defaults also matter when they are the wrong defaults.

	▲	ltbarcly3 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is not difficult to understand. It's very easy to understand.