From: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:03:06 GMT
Subject: Re: parse-options does not recognize "unspecified" behavior
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> Deprecating doesn't mean "removing".  It merely means that we add a note
> to the documentation stating that the option in question is deprecated,
> but we will keep supporting it for several years and releases to come.

Okay. Didn't know.

> This means that '--verbose' and '--show-diff' must coexist for quite a
> while, and 'git commit' should do the right thing even if both old and
> new options are combined.  And, of course, in combination with the new
> config variable(s).  I suspect that all this would be more than a half
> an hour job.

Now that I think of it again, I underestimated this. It will take a
lot more time and create a lot of confusion on my side.