From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:15 +0100 Message-ID: <874ntto4t8.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: <20120312024948.GB4650@kroah.com> <20120312063027.GB8971@1wt.eu> <20120312064855.GB16820@burratino> <20120312085820.GA11569@1wt.eu> <20120312152004.GB9380@kroah.com> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Junio C Hamano , Willy Tarreau , Greg KH , Ben Hutchings , , , To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 12 23:03:45 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 1S7DLF-0004IB-0M for glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757620Ab2CLWDf (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:03:35 -0400 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:43678 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757073Ab2CLWDd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:03:33 -0400 Received: from CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:29 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (188.155.176.28) by CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20120312215607.GB11362@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:56:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [188.155.176.28] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder 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'd hate doing that, mostly because other projects got me really angry about similar issues, e.g., 71c020c (Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+ semantics for `{plus}` and friends, 2009-07-25). By the time I knew what the problem was, I figured posting anywhere was useless since the change was already in the wild, and thus needed working around on our end; and all I could possibly post was an angry letter saying how unhappy I was about their work. I didn't, and worked around it. But that was after a lot of frustrated investigation. So I'd rather not do the same to our unlucky users. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch