From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:06:53 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: Proposing git-filter-repo for inclusion in git.git
Message-ID: <xmqqsgpl1g8i.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1908281307250.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> FWIW if anybody cares about my opinion: I would be totally fine with
> integrating git-filter-repo into git.git, have it there for a major
> version or two, then patch `git filter-branch` to spew out a deprecation
> warning, and then remove that latter command a major version (or two)
> later.

Yup, that's just the usual deprecate then delete sequence.  The
compatibility wrapper brought up in the discussion earlier would be
a big plus ;-)