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[PATCH v5 3/4] BreakingChanges: document removal of grafting

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
Jun 3, 2024, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID
<4142e472ac54f5008b0566fdb967f86677171491.1717402497.git.ps@pks.im>
In-Reply-To
<cover.1717402497.git.ps@pks.im>

The grafting mechanism for objects has been deprecated in e650d0643b (docs: mark info/grafts as outdated, 2014-03-05), which is more than a decade ago. The mechanism can lead to hard-to-debug issues and has a superior replacement with replace refs.

Follow through with the deprecation and mark grafts for removal in Git 3.0.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt b/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt
index 904857a636..b5088dcce2 100644
--- a/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt
+++ b/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ Cf. <2f5de416-04ba-c23d-1e0b-83bb655829a7@zombino.com>,
 
 === Removals
 
+* Support for grafting commits has long been superseded by git-replace(1).
+  Grafts are inferior to replacement refs as the mechanism can lead to
+  hard-to-diagnose problems when transferring objects between repositories.
+  They have been outdated since e650d0643b (docs: mark info/grafts as outdated,
+  2014-03-05) and will be removed.
++
+Cf. <20140304174806.GA11561@sigill.intra.peff.net>.
+
 == Superseded features that will not be deprecated
 
 Some features have gained newer replacements that aim to improve the design in
-- 
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  42. 2/4 BreakingChanges: document upcoming change from "sha1" to "sha256"Patrick Steinhardt, Jun 3, 2024
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  46. 3/4 BreakingChanges: document removal of graftingPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 3, 2024
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  48. 4/4 BreakingChanges: document that we do not plan to deprecate git-checkoutPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 3, 2024
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  51. 0/4 docs: document upcoming breaking changesPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 4, 2024
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  59. 3/4 BreakingChanges: document removal of graftingPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 4, 2024
  60. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2024
  61. 4/4 BreakingChanges: document that we do not plan to deprecate git-checkoutPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 4, 2024
  62. Phillip WoodJun 4, 2024
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  65. 0/4 docs: document upcoming breaking changesPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 14, 2024
  66. 1/4 docs: introduce document to announce breaking changesPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 14, 2024
  67. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2024
  68. 2/4 BreakingChanges: document upcoming change from "sha1" to "sha256"Patrick Steinhardt, Jun 14, 2024
  69. 3/4 BreakingChanges: document removal of graftingPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 14, 2024
  70. 4/4 BreakingChanges: document that we do not plan to deprecate git-checkoutPatrick Steinhardt, Jun 14, 2024

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