From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= Subject: Re: Deprecate git-fetch-pack? Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:09:28 -0800 Message-ID: <74415967-7F49-426C-8BF5-1A0210C337AB@develooper.com> References: <7v4pftip42.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v912) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Barkalow , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 11 04:16:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ir3JI-0007PU-2m for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:16:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752283AbXKKDQL (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:16:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752524AbXKKDQL (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:16:11 -0500 Received: from x8.develooper.com ([216.52.237.208]:44892 "EHLO x8.develooper.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752232AbXKKDQL (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:16:11 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:16:10 EST Received: (qmail 30328 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2007 03:09:29 -0000 Received: from gw.develooper.com (HELO g5.bn.dev) (ask@mail.dev@64.81.84.140) by smtp.develooper.com with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Nov 2007 03:09:29 -0000 In-Reply-To: <7v4pftip42.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.912) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As to peek-remote, ls-remote over the native transport is a > synonym so I do not think anybody doing the scripting would have > problem doing s/peek-/ls-/ to their script, but again I do not > see a heavy maintenance burden to keep the synonym, yet. For new users the superfluous programs are a burden making it harder to learn how everything works. "What does this thing do? How is it different from that other similar program? How do they interact? Oh, this one isn't really used. Grrh." At least a note in the documentation that it's superseded by $other_program would be helpful for us newcomers. :-) - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/