From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:18:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor Message-ID: <7vzlzkygf0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin 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.