From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:22:10 -0700 Message-ID: <7vipi8wect.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20120312152453.GB12405@1wt.eu> <87aa3l4vqq.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <20120312165703.GB18791@burratino> <7vvcm9snko.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87399dpk48.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <20120312215607.GB11362@burratino> <874ntto4t8.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <20120312222227.GC11362@burratino> <87fwdcldqj.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <7v62e8la9y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120313175158.GA6653@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Rast , Willy Tarreau , Greg KH , Ben Hutchings , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 13 19:22:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7WMa-00031n-C1 for glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:22:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759403Ab2CMSWO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:14 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:64435 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758733Ab2CMSWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:12 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587E76815; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:12 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=R95JUFIASNNxjPHxglW7fEt9rAQ=; b=oNADcx 6rXRV7pFh+B506pi5o/9aE9PzcjG1pqHR0jQFexZdsocA4Y7yLJ3G52ZAxHDDHoN qI4W1ZWMNmTgKP0UTYCeuneYHB+c7txE5cP/yoHsndGPD+X+a32lWWOvVLHuk/RX ugHk4kc1Z40x0hjWLXJkKB8Rny2uq65A28L1s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=dCPwn+DNsD2oL/sORcJ0ED4VGuVhEeXc pwEDd/QiR/cQKCtSMFZxRi2vIlWHaq+4+0wLRTAchqffA6Pc1HlRfeKkLwdI4RkQ VmbcgP/E2GE8uy21EwP8kuVxsNwL0XjB5mF0Ca+igR7iccynY8cEkrVaDi9+hET5 Um/ftjugYqY= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0C96814; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D28F66813; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20120313175158.GA6653@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:51:58 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 73AB9580-6D39-11E1-8F14-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: >> I really don't think it is a good idea to avoid mentioning 1.6.0, at >> which we *removed* description of the option in our manual pages and >> from the "git am -h" help message. How much more active deprecation >> would a user want? > > A warning when the option is used or a mention in the release notes. Ok, then we should probably instead do these two starting at 1.7.10 ("the official deprecation date"), and then start erroring out on "-b" three cycles after that.