From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:41:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1
Message-ID: <7vlkh6kqk6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8xd8o0q6.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> 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 ;-)