From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 23:09:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-redundant: gauge the usage before proposing its removal
Message-ID: <20200825230904.GA23203@syl.lan>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1rjuz6n3.fsf_-_@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Hi Junio,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:45:52PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The subcommand is unusably slow and the reason why nobody reports it
> as a performance bug is suspected to be the absense of users.  Let's
> show a big message that asks the user to tell us that they still
> care about the command when an attempt is made to run the command,
> with an escape hatch to override it with a command line option.
>
> In a few releases, we may turn it into an error and keep it for a
> few more releases before finally removing it (during the whole time,
> the plan to remove it would be interrupted by end user raising hand).
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---

Thanks. Peff's plan seems reasonable to me (and I'd like to add that I
am a frequent reader of the release notes ;-)), as does this patch.

  Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>

Thanks,
Taylor