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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Apr 6, 2007, 05:41 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
>> Thanks -- that's very true.  I meant that they are loooong
>> deprecated, and finally we removed them in this release.
>
> In a perfect world, the release notes would mention the reason for the
> removal (e.g. "use git foo-bar instead").

Soon after 1.5.0 was released, I think we said these two were not used in practice and declared them as deprecated. So there is no "use this instead".

In a perfect world, nobody would kibitz, but instead everybody reads, understands and remembers the discussion that led to the change ;-)

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  1. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2007
  2. Andy ParkinsApr 4, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2007
  4. Matthieu MoyApr 4, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2007
  6. Matthieu MoyApr 6, 2007
  7. A note from the maintainerJunio C Hamano, Apr 4, 2007
  8. A note from the maintainerJunio C Hamano, May 20, 2007

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