This is my first time looking at SE.Redis source code. Please let me know if I'm off base here.

And... before this is really considered ready for merge-- how do you run the unit tests?

Just noting this would be a breaking change, so has to wait for vNext (2.x) either way. Sorry for the delay, we're trying to get through a large OSS backlog/

Added overload approach to make this not be a breaking change - you might want to look at ec28903 to see how this can be done. Much appreciated.