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Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Mar 13, 2012, 15:31 UTC
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<87fwdcldqj.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
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<20120312222227.GC11362@burratino>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> 	--binary)
> 		: ;;
> 	-b)
> 		gettextln >&2 "The -b option (a no-op short for --binary) was removed in 1.7.10."
> 		die "$(gettext "Please adjust your scripts.")"
> 		;;
>
> Mentioning deprecation in 1.6.0 in the message left me uneasy because
> we never actually did anything to actively deprecate the option; it
> just has not been needed since 1.4.3 and we stopped advertising it in
> the manpage in 1.6.0.  So I don't like the implication of "this is all
> right because we told you so" --- on the contrary, it is "in practice
> nobody seems to be using this option and we hope nobody will notice
> when we take it away".

Hmm, I had an alternate patch ready in the morning, but Junio beat us to it and applied the old one to master.

I don't really think it matters enough to apply *another*, so I'll leave it at that.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 16 of 37 in “stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)”
  1. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  2. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  3. Greg KHMar 12, 2012
  4. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  5. Thomas RastMar 12, 2012
  6. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  7. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  9. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  10. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  11. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  12. Thomas RastMar 12, 2012
  13. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  14. Thomas RastMar 12, 2012
  15. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  16. Thomas RastMar 13, 2012
  17. Jonathan NiederMar 13, 2012
  18. Thomas RastMar 13, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2012
  20. Jonathan NiederMar 13, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2012
  22. git-am: officially deprecate -b/--binaryJunio C Hamano, Mar 13, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  25. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  26. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  27. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  28. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  30. Greg KHMar 12, 2012
  31. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  32. Greg KHMar 12, 2012
  33. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  34. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  35. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  36. SergioMar 13, 2012
  37. Thomas RastMar 13, 2012

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