From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:18:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Deprecate --cache.* ?
Message-ID: <200511161018.19374.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vsltxazyf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 07:06, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
> > Backward compability could be ensured by having both versions of the flags
> > around for a while and issuing a warning when the old form is used.
> >
> > Good idea? Bad? Stupid? Do we want to keep "cache" around?
> 
> I agree that may be a logical move, with proper b/c slack, but I
> am not _so_ enthused about this...

Probably, as your fingers are trained. I just tried it to write 10
times as fast as possible: cache, and afterwards index; and writing
cache *is* faster ;-)

But for someone new to git, these options must be totally confusing
and coming out of nowhere. Not that I use these often - I am a
Cogito user.

Practically, the opinion of people using these options often should
count, as it will be inconvenient for them. Rare users can look up
the man page.

Josef