Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] Remove deprecated commands
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
- Date
- Nov 11, 2013, 18:38 UTC
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- <20131111183853.GP24023@serenity.lan>
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- <xmqq4n7in6c0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:25:51AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes: > > > "git repo-config", "git tar-tree", "git lost-found" and "git > > peek-remote" have all been deprecated since at least Git 1.5.4. > > > > With Git 2.0 approaching, I think that would be a good point to remove > > then completely, which is what this series does. > > Probably good material to discuss during the next cycle. > > As a totally unscientific sanity check, I asked Google to show these > since Nov 13, 2011: > > [git repo-config] vs [git config]: 136 vs 232 > > [git peek-remote] vs [git ls-remote]: 62 vs 133 > > [git tar-tree] vs [git archive]: 73 vs 189 > > [git lost-found] vs [git fsck --lost-found]: 96 vs 83 > > So I think 1, 2, and 4 are OK to ship in whatever version that comes > after the upcoming 1.8.5, but we might have to hold onto lost-found > a bit longer. The command does show a deprecation warning, so there > is nothing to change at this point.
I was assuming these would be queued as a "held until 2.0" branch, but if you think some can go earlier I can re-send this once 1.8.5 is out of the way.