From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:27:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stage: remove unused, unreferenced builtin-alias
Message-ID: <7vvc538iu0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1372097546-27721-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> 11920d2 (Add a built-in alias for 'stage' to the 'add' command,
> 2008-12-01) added a the 'git stage' command which simply calls
> cmd_add().  Since then, no references to it have been made anywhere on
> the internet; there is no evidence that anyone even knows about its
> existence.  It is a long-lost forgotten command that only serves the
> purpose of preventing the user from having a custom alias.stage to do
> something useful.  Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> ---
>  I just found out about its existence.

Hmm, this has not discussed on the list at all, let alone achieving
consensus that it is a good change.

At least, please direct the patch Cc'ed to the original author of
what you are removing, not to me.

Thanks.