From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Remove repo-config
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:20:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlk6psn5h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478D8AA8.3070008@gmail.com> (Dan McGee's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:40:08 -0600")
Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> writes:
> On 01/15/2008 10:23 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I do not think it is unreasonable to add repo-config to feature
>> removal schedule in 1.5.4 release notes. Perhaps something like...
>>
>> + * "git repo-config", which was an old name for "git config" command,
>> + has been supported without being advertised for a long time. The
>> + next feature release will remove it.
>> +
>
> Seems fine to me. Does it need to be put in command-list.txt for the time being too, or what all is that file used for? Sorry I am not familiar.
>
> Something like:
>
> git-repo-config ancillarymanipulators deprecated
Technically, you are right, but somehow it feels backwards.
We stopped advertising the existence of the command in v1.5.0,
and adding it to the list now would mean we need to add a new
git-repo-config manual page that says "This is deprecated, use
git-config instead".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 3:19 [RFC/PATCH] Remove repo-config Dan McGee
2008-01-16 4:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 4:40 ` Dan McGee
2008-01-16 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-16 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 20:47 ` Peter Oberndorfer
2008-01-16 20:58 ` [STGIT PATCH] replace "git repo-config" usage by "git config" Peter Oberndorfer
2008-01-16 21:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 21:46 ` Peter Oberndorfer
2008-01-17 17:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-17 23:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-17 7:45 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-18 4:24 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-23 11:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-23 16:10 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-23 16:42 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-24 7:01 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-24 15:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-24 18:08 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-24 18:20 ` Catalin Marinas
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