From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:40:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.11.0-rc3
Message-ID: <e14747cd-f3ab-a840-f743-c72a15989aa1@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <836824f5-79e5-fbbf-dfe0-78cc19af1fb2@xiplink.com>

Am 24.11.2016 um 17:25 schrieb Marc Branchaud:
> On 2016-11-23 06:21 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>  * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git
>>    merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some
>>    time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax.  This
>>    is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation.
>
> Is this still true, given j6t's recent patch at
>
> http://public-inbox.org/git/e61cc267-a59b-3be1-29db-c49d56f521f7@kdbg.org/T/

It is still true. The git-gui shipped with 2.11 does not depend on the 
deprecated syntax. The deprecation can move forward.

In what ever way the regression will be fixed: we do not have to return 
to the deprecated syntax.

-- Hannes