Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

>> We can delete "git am -b" (as it was deprecated long time ago), wait
>> for a cycle or two, and then repurpose it.  I do not mind starting
>> the first step (delete, but do not say anything about repurposing)
>> before 1.7.10-rc1 happens.
>
> Ok, but if I don't get to say anything about repurposing, can I at least
> make it an error message instead of just spewing out the "invalid
> option" help?

Surely.  It is not "Am I at least allowed to say" at all; we really
_should_ make it clear why it is no longer supported.

What I meant was that "it will start meaning something different" is
not a relevant thing to see when somebody sees his old script that
uses "-b" breaks.

Let's apply your patch so that we do not have to wait one cycle too
long.

Thanks.

>
> ----- 8< -----
> Subject: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary
>
> The --binary option to git-apply has been a no-op since 2b6eef9 (Make
> apply --binary a no-op., 2006-09-06) and was deprecated in cb3a160
> (git-am: ignore --binary option, 2008-08-09).
>
> We could remove it outright, but let's be nice to people who still
> have scripts saying 'git am -b' (if they exist) and tell them the
> reason for the sudden failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
> ---
>  git-am.sh |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
> index 0bd290b..faae820 100755
> --- a/git-am.sh
> +++ b/git-am.sh
> @@ -380,7 +380,9 @@ do
>  	-i|--interactive)
>  		interactive=t ;;
>  	-b|--binary)
> -		: ;;
> +		echo >&2 "The -b/--binary option was deprecated in 1.6.0 and removed in 1.7.10."
> +		die "Please adjust your scripts."
> +		;;
>  	-3|--3way)
>  		threeway=t ;;
>  	-s|--signoff)