From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:18:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzlzkygf0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709172355020.28586@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:04:40 +0100 (BST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> > Suggested by Junio, but the errors are all mine.
>> >
>> > I am not quite certain, though, if there is really no porcelain
>> > using that option. It has been around since Oct 7 2005 (!), so
>> > there is a real chance that StGit, guilt or QGit use it. In that
>> > case, this patch is obviously wrong.
>>
>> You do not have to do the deprecating/removing part if that is
>> the issue.
>
> I'd rather avoid keeping this code, if nobody uses it anyway...
>
> So I cloned StGit and guilt (the two porcelains that I feel are most used,
> apart from what is in git.git, and I'm too lazy to find that mail
> analysing the recent Git survey). Neither of them has any --index-info in
> their complete history.
>
> So I'm more confident now that there is no need to keep --index-info.
Ok, fair enough.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 22:34 [PATCH] apply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-17 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-17 23:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-18 0:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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