API breakages - file bugs / update HACKING.txt ?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> It's not just new mandatory arguments., it's also public APIs
> disappearing without deprecation. For example, the public constructor
> of KnitVersionedFile lost two arguments in 1.4.

This is true, but before doing that, Robert posted a message titled "api
break for 1.4..." and requested feedback on whether that break was
acceptable.  So you could have said "no" at that point.

I think that we should not generally remove things without deprecation.
 When we do, we ought to confirm it with the community like Robert did.

Aaron
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