Re: [PATCH] pathspec: die on empty strings as pathspec

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2017, 11:03 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvao414wb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170610062151.fv7d4audrwav2hy3@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> That's long enough for people who actually ran the intermediate
> versions.  But what about people on distros who jump from v2.10 or lower
> straight to v2.14?
>
> I think to catch them we'd literally need years on our deprecation
> schedules. Maybe it's not worth caring about. That's an awful long time
> for people who _are_ upgrading each version to see the warning. Of
> course the end game in this case is that it becomes an error, so they'll
> be notified either way. :)
>
> I'm OK with this case being a relatively quick deprecation, but your
> "long enough" made me wonder how we would decide that.
>
> -Peff
>
> [1] Debian stable is set to release in a week or so. People doing that
>     stable upgrade will go from v2.1.4 to v2.11.0. So they won't
>     actually skip the deprecation notice, but they'll probably live with
>     the warning for 3 years or so.

Yuck X-<.