Re: Git for Windows v2.20.0-rc0, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.20.0-rc0

> I've run 2.20.0-rc0 through the test matrix for Bitbucket Server on
> both Linux and Windows, and the only failures were related to this
> change:
> 
> * "git branch -l <foo>" used to be a way to ask a reflog to be
>    created while creating a new branch, but that is no longer the
>    case.  It is a short-hand for "git branch --list <foo>" now.
> 
> Since this is an intentional change I suspect there's nothing to do
> for it but patch Bitbucket Server and move on, but I'll confess it's a
> little frustrating that the option was deprecated in 2.19 and then
> immediately removed in the next minor release. Such a
> backwards-incompatible change seems far more apt for a major release,
> a perspective that's reinforced by having the change follow such a
> brief deprecation period--2.19.0 was only tagged September 10th (in my
> timezone), so it's been less than 3 months. (Looking at the git branch
> documentation for 2.18.0 [1] shows nothing about this deprecation; the
> messaging first appears in 2.19.0 [2]. To be honest, I didn't even
> realize it was deprecated until now, when it's gone--our test suite is
> automated, so the deprecation warning was not visible.)