From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:22:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary Message-ID: <7vipi8wect.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120313175158.GA6653@burratino> Jonathan Nieder writes: >> I really don't think it is a good idea to avoid mentioning 1.6.0, at >> which we *removed* description of the option in our manual pages and >> from the "git am -h" help message. How much more active deprecation >> would a user want? > > A warning when the option is used or a mention in the release notes. Ok, then we should probably instead do these two starting at 1.7.10 ("the official deprecation date"), and then start erroring out on "-b" three cycles after that.