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Re: [PATCH] apply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2007, 00:18 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > 	Suggested by Junio, but the errors are all mine.
>> >
>> > 	I am not quite certain, though, if there is really no porcelain 
>> > 	using that option.  It has been around since Oct 7 2005 (!), so 
>> > 	there is a real chance that StGit, guilt or QGit use it.  In that 
>> > 	case, this patch is obviously wrong.
>> 
>> You do not have to do the deprecating/removing part if that is
>> the issue.
>
> I'd rather avoid keeping this code, if nobody uses it anyway...
>
> So I cloned StGit and guilt (the two porcelains that I feel are most used, 
> apart from what is in git.git, and I'm too lazy to find that mail 
> analysing the recent Git survey).  Neither of them has any --index-info in 
> their complete history.
>
> So I'm more confident now that there is no need to keep --index-info.
Ok, fair enough.
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  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 17, 2007
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