From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:50:08 GMT
Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)
Message-ID: <20120312185008.GH12405@1wt.eu>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcm9snko.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04:23AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> So perhaps we can safely claim -b for --keep-non-patch, like so:
> 
> We can delete "git am -b" (as it was deprecated long time ago), wait
> for a cycle or two, and then repurpose it.  I do not mind starting
> the first step (delete, but do not say anything about repurposing)
> before 1.7.10-rc1 happens.

>From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users
tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice,
not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect
most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So
I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option.

Just my 2 cents,
Willy