From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B141F404 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727245AbeHaAyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:54:36 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:34662 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1725893AbeHaAyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:54:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 10727 invoked by uid 109); 30 Aug 2018 20:50:36 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:50:36 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 31677 invoked by uid 111); 30 Aug 2018 20:50:44 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:50:44 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:50:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:50:34 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , git@vger.kernel.org, Kaartic Sivaraam Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] branch: make "-l" a synonym for "--list" Message-ID: <20180830205033.GA27399@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20180622092327.GA8361@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20180622092459.GD13573@sigill.intra.peff.net> <87wos8cjt8.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <87in3rd422.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <20180830200452.GB22407@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:29:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > I do not know if the documentation that is shipped in 2.20 should > >> > talk about how the old world looked like, though. `-l` was a short > >> > for `--create-reflog` is worth saying, but I do not see much value > >> > in talking about the warning given in 2.19. > >> > >> I'm anticipating that there will be users in the wild with similar -l > >> invocations, noting this helps them, because they'll be wondering what > >> some script that does "git branch -l " is trying to do while > >> reading our docs. > > > > I don't have a strong opinion either way. If we do mention it, it should > > probably be short ("Until Git v2.20, the `-l` option was a synonym for > > `--create-reflog"). > > I agree that the short one would of course be good. I am on the > fence about mentioning the warning only given in 2.19. Yeah, I was confused about that part of the thread. Is there something proposed to (additionally) go into v2.19? Ævar, can you elaborate? -Peff