From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:16:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] pull: rename pull.rename to pull.mode
Message-ID: <vpqmwnljdmn.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1FfQ-1pAK8T1cmiZk4i17HnpvzPwuZrzHiiXSmGzbrRw@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:49:36PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>>> > These deprecation warning messages should be written to stderr, and
>>> > should probably be prefixed with "WARNING: ".
>>>
>>> Is there any deprecation warning that works this way?
>>
>> The ones in C code typically use warning(), which will prefix with
>> "warning:" and write to stderr. They do not use all-caps, though.
>>
>> Try "git log --grep=deprecate -Swarning" for some examples.
>
> I'm asking about the ones in shell, because this is a shell script.

No user cares whether "git pull" is written in shell. shell Vs C is an
implementation detail, stdout Vs stderr is user-visible.

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Matthieu Moy
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