Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] Remove deprecated commands

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2013, 18:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4n7in6c0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1384098226.git.john@keeping.me.uk>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

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> "git repo-config", "git tar-tree", "git lost-found" and "git
> peek-remote" have all been deprecated since at least Git 1.5.4.
>
> With Git 2.0 approaching, I think that would be a good point to remove
> then completely, which is what this series does.

Probably good material to discuss during the next cycle.

As a totally unscientific sanity check, I asked Google to show these since Nov 13, 2011:

    [git repo-config] vs [git config]: 136 vs 232

    [git peek-remote] vs [git ls-remote]: 62 vs 133

    [git tar-tree] vs [git archive]: 73 vs 189

    [git lost-found] vs [git fsck --lost-found]: 96 vs 83

So I think 1, 2, and 4 are OK to ship in whatever version that comes after the upcoming 1.8.5, but we might have to hold onto lost-found a bit longer. The command does show a deprecation warning, so there is nothing to change at this point.

Thanks.