[RFC/PATCH] pack-redundant: escalate deprecation warning to an error
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Mar 23, 2023, 20:40 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20230323204047.GA9290@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In c3b58472be2 (pack-redundant: gauge the usage before proposing its removal, 2020-08-25), we added a big, ugly warning when pack-redundant is run. The plan there indicated that we would ratchet that up to an error before finally removing it. Since it has been 2.5 years (and 9 releases) since then, let's continue with the plan.
Note that we did get one bite on the warning, which was somebody asking about alternatives:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAKvOHKAFXQwt4D8yUCCkf_TQL79mYaJ=KAKhtpDNTvHJFuX1NA@mail.gmail.com/
but we didn't undo the ugly warning (and the advice continues to be "use repack -d" instead).
There was also some discussion around the time of the deprecation that pack-redundant was invoked by the bitbake tool, and it still seems to do so now:
https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
That use should probably just go away in favor of an occasional repack (which probably even happens via auto-gc after fetch these days).
But since neither of those data points caused us to cancel the deprecation plan by dropping the warning, it seems like we should proceed with the next step.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- I was looking in this file recently, and was reminded of the deprecation plan. The two data points above do give me a little bit of pause, but it seems like the current state is the worst of both worlds: we do not have the benefit of dropping the code, and people who try to use the command have a bad experience. So we should probably either proceed (as with this patch), or decide we need to keep pack-redundant.
builtin/pack-redundant.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/builtin/pack-redundant.c b/builtin/pack-redundant.c index 82115c5808c..5e93d873208 100644 --- a/builtin/pack-redundant.c +++ b/builtin/pack-redundant.c @@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ int cmd_pack_redundant(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) "option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line\n" "and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail\n" "to <git@vger.kernel.org>. Thanks.\n"), stderr); + die(_("refusing to run without --i-still-use-this")); } if (load_all_packs)
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