Re: v1.5.4 plans

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 19:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmyshdoyu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1197386675.5001.4.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com>

Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:

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> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 14:37 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>  * We have a handful deprecation notices in the draft release notes, but
>>    if I recall correctly, Nico wanted to add a few more.  We need to
>>    come up with a wording that is easy to understand for the end users
>>    to decide which ancient versions will be affected.
>
> Can we deprecate .git/branches?

We deprecated it from the very beginning, in the sense that we never wrote into it ourselves, but merely tried to pay attention to what others wrote there. So I am open to a bullet point that officially declares the deprecation.

But we need to come up with a removal schedule. Say, the first feature release after June 2008?