Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary

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

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Hm, on second thought, if people are seeing this message, I would
> prefer if they write to the mailing list so we can find out about it.
> So I really would rather see this say
>
> 	--binary)
> 		: ;;
>
> and have "-b" completely unrecognized, without any words in our
> defense except for a note in the release notes mentioning the option's
> removal and that it has been an unadvertised backward-compatibility
> no-op since 1.6.0.

I do not mind keeping --binary working intact, but I think an
approach to say that "-b" no longer works and is finally removed
very firmly is a very sane one.  We would be getting a slightly
better feel of how stale the people's script could be with your
approach, but at the same time, we would be annoying far more people
who do not even know that there are some people passionately trying
to make the users' Git life better, or where these people are
hanging out.

I do not think removal of a no-op "-b" is something subject to
voting at this point, so the only thing you would get from the
better feel of the user universe is when we can repurpose the option
safely.