Re: Deprecate git-fetch-pack?

From: Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2007, 03:09 UTC
Message-ID: <74415967-7F49-426C-8BF5-1A0210C337AB@develooper.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pftip42.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> As to peek-remote, ls-remote over the native transport is a
> synonym so I do not think anybody doing the scripting would have
> problem doing s/peek-/ls-/ to their script, but again I do not
> see a heavy maintenance burden to keep the synonym, yet.

For new users the superfluous programs are a burden making it harder to learn how everything works.

"What does this thing do? How is it different from that other similar program? How do they interact? Oh, this one isn't really used. Grrh."

At least a note in the documentation that it's superseded by $other_program would be helpful for us newcomers. :-)

  - ask

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