From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:21:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert: Hide '-r' option in default usage
Message-ID: <20110413132146.GB26760@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <7vhba4v6p8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi Junio,

Junio C Hamano writes:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Since the '-r' command-line option is a no-op provided only for
> > backward compatiblity, don't advertise it in the default usage.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> > ---
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> It would have saved me a lot of time if you wrote that this option has
> been a no-op since abd6970 (cherry-pick: make -r the default, 2006-10-05),
> but the commit didn't remove it from the usage string, and it somehow
> survived 9509af6 (Make git-revert & git-cherry-pick a builtin, 2007-03-01)
> and later f810379 (Make builtin-revert.c use parse_options, 2007-10-07),
> and it is about time to stop advertising it.

Thanks.  I didn't realize there was so much history to write about.
Has you queued this somewhere?

-- Ram