From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:23:14 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2010, #01; Sat, 4) Message-ID: <7v62v8ufyl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20101205101333.GA7466@home.lan> Yann Dirson writes: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 10:30:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> * kb/diff-C-M-synonym (2010-11-29) 1 commit >> - diff: add --detect-copies-harder as a synonym for --find-copies-harder >> >> Will merge to 'next' soon. > > If we go this way, don't we want to deprecate --find-copies-harder as well ? Why? We are being nice to people who did not know --find-copies-harder but learned the --detect-renames long name before learning it, which by definition is are people because the long names have been there only for the last few months; they may expect "detect" to work there. That is the sole purpose of the additional synonym. I do not think we would get much benefit from panalizing people who knew about and have used the --find-copies-harder option for long time by marking it to be deprecated.