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Re: [PATCH 6/6] diff: deprecate -q option to diff-files

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2013, 07:24 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> We should remove the support for "-q" in Git 2.0.
>
> Nooooo.  I hope you are teasing.
>
> I don't mind seeing support for "-q" dropped, but I really don't think
> it's worth delaying git 2.0 for that.  Would s/in Git 2.0/in some
> future release/ be ok?

I do not think keeping the support for "-q" in is any huge burden. We do not have to remove it, forever, for that matter.

The option is so obscure that (1) I would suspect that only a few very old scripts would use it, (2) even the users who use such a script every day would not know what the script is doing with the option, and (3) we would not know if such scripts exist until a long time passes after we include patches up to this step in a released version.

That is why the patch 7/6 rolls the removal into a version bump at which we promised to have a bunch of backward incompatible changes to people.

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Message 21 of 25 in “daemon.c:handle: Remove unneeded check for null pointer.”
  1. 1/4 daemon.c:handle: Remove unneeded check for null pointer.Stefan Beller, Jul 14, 2013
  2. 2/4 commit: Fix a memory leak in determine_author_infoStefan Beller, Jul 14, 2013
  3. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2013
  4. 3/4 diff-no-index: Remove unused variable.Stefan Beller, Jul 14, 2013
  5. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2013
  6. 0/2 git diff -q option removalStefan Beller, Jul 16, 2013
  7. 1/2 diff --no-index: remove nonfunctional "-q" handlingStefan Beller, Jul 16, 2013
  8. 2/2 diff: Remove -q to stay silent on missing files.Stefan Beller, Jul 16, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2013
  11. Stefan BellerJul 17, 2013
  12. 0/6 Deprecating "diff-files -q"Junio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  13. 1/6 diff: pass the whole diff_options to diffcore_apply_filter()Junio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  14. 2/6 diff: factor out match_filter()Junio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  15. 3/6 diff: preparse --diff-filter string argumentJunio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  16. 4/6 diff: reject unknown change class given to --diff-filterJunio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  17. 5/6 diff: allow lowercase letter to specify what change class to excludeJunio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  18. 6/6 diff: deprecate -q option to diff-filesJunio C Hamano, Jul 18, 2013
  19. 7/6 diff: remove "diff-files -q" at Git 2.0 version boundaryJunio C Hamano, Jul 19, 2013
  20. Jonathan NiederJul 19, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013
  22. Jonathan NiederJul 19, 2013
  23. 4/4 diff.c: Do not initialize a variable, which gets reassigned anyway.Stefan Beller, Jul 14, 2013
  24. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2013
  25. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2013

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