From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:16:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] Remove unused and bad gettext block from git-am
Message-ID: <CAOeW2eHyLHGs3-Sd6X0b2Of1mFa1U8dCBU7L85_MJc4BY=BJmA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120724182700.GI2939@burratino>

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jiang Xin wrote:
>
>> Gettext message should not start with '-' nor '--'. Since the '-d' and
>> '--dotest' options do not exist in OPTIONS_SPEC variable, it's safe to
>> remove the block.
>
> The above justification is not a sufficient reason to stop giving
> helpful advice when someone uses an option that was historically
> supported:

I think Jiang is saying that "git am --dotest=..." already errors out
because "dotest" is not in the OPTIONS_SPEC. See 98ef23b (git-am:
minor cleanups, 2009-01-28). Or am I missing something?