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Re: [PATCH] completion: remove use of dashed git commands

From
Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2008, 17:49 UTC
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>  On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
>
>  > [no commit message]
>
>  I would like to deprecate dashed form _officially_ first (as in
>  ReleaseNotes), before doing something that could lead to quite some
>  surprised users.

Now you've confused me. From Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt, it seems fairly clear that dashed command forms are deprecated.

This patch was rather non-intrusive- it only updated the bash completion script to use the non-dashed forms. I'm not sure how this leads to surprised users at all.

-Dan

(Sorry for the double send, forgot the reply-all the first time. Looks like I need another Sunday cup of coffee.)

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  1. completion: remove use of dashed git commandsDan McGee, Apr 20, 2008
  2. completion: allow 'git remote' subcommand completionDan McGee, Apr 20, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceApr 20, 2008
  4. completion: allow 'git remote' subcommand completionDan McGee, Apr 20, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2008
  6. Dan McGeeApr 20, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2008
  8. Dan McGeeApr 20, 2008
  9. Matthieu MoyApr 20, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2008
  11. Shawn O. PearceApr 20, 2008

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