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Re: [RFC/PATCH] pack-redundant: escalate deprecation warning to an error

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Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2023, 21:16 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 01:56:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I was looking in this file recently, and was reminded of the deprecation
> > plan. The two data points above do give me a little bit of pause, but it
> > seems like the current state is the worst of both worlds: we do not have
> > the benefit of dropping the code, and people who try to use the command
> > have a bad experience. So we should probably either proceed (as with
> > this patch), or decide we need to keep pack-redundant.
>
> Sounds like a good thing to do.  Will queue.  Thanks.

Yeah, I agree with and am persuaded by the "worst of both worlds" argument. I think that changing this to a die() is sensible for now.

At what point would it be fair to drop this builtin entirely from the tree?

Thanks, Taylor

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  1. pack-redundant: escalate deprecation warning to an errorJeff King, Mar 23, 2023
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2023
  3. Taylor BlauMar 23, 2023
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2023
  5. pack-redundant: document deprecationJeff King, Mar 28, 2023

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