From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (pb-smtp2.pobox.com [64.147.108.71]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DA2C148825 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724907609; cv=none; b=ZpxDYzT1pfd9/B9xiCx93gVr8enSuvgqqJ5pZ6V4NnmMbg0EVABMCGJeGbF15aselNzzSxn99UTwYHtRj9UROCnjTahkD+zuA2YOouSz1WUmjM4u6/rni+3b8iIStWIW4abOS1HsqXXaFK4LYP91/y4JbXcltz2hWp5GA30ZgO4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724907609; c=relaxed/simple; bh=lOT8WaUJn1DHrO0m00ZNQPBBMp46F7wA+3vshdRGN7A=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ZNsFYPG25oatYuSqYBoXFsG81IP5kLFOAmOteDEubu3pOkGqnqPfuiDLfMK5qM268XR8aMa97RkU9Ql9RS7ci5UYhZO4YUdSOAUsDiBFfICUiv1A+l5BKOIHG49YbspWaIQdo/TXCXt13fcKXnaWUukdRwPjc7vzuy0INi2cvHs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=JfqcyuJY; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="JfqcyuJY" Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946E62CAE0; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=lOT8WaUJn1DHrO0m00ZNQPBBMp46F7wA+3vshd RGN7A=; b=JfqcyuJYF3P+66+iLFL/94AQ0jMVByXKnH6siGg0CIt6BiB37fGLVF cNIYCf88BSj8XsZH3mmqoyV3uBGc1We8YBkVIejkRNJU+oCQ51DPv7LkxOjUeaWK DlC2ly2Ufglkr+jzQm4OuOWjlnl1gikskHB7RByxTpiFGvy2Qvksw= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658062CAD3; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.94.240]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FAD72CACA; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:59:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: shejialuo , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] add ref content check for files backend In-Reply-To: <20240829040215.GA4054823@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:02:15 -0400") References: <20240829040215.GA4054823@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:59:58 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8AF3A968-65C3-11EF-ADB2-9B0F950A682E-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Jeff King writes: > As an aside, I wonder if we should consider deprecating and eventually > dropping support for core.prefersymlinkrefs. I can't think of a reason > anybody would want to use it, and of course it makes no sense as we move > on to alternate backends like reftables. Yup. Perhaps add an entry or two to BreakingChanges document? Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git c/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt w/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt index 0532bfcf7f..2a85740f3c 100644 --- c/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt +++ w/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt @@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ info/grafts as outdated, 2014-03-05) and will be removed. + Cf. <20140304174806.GA11561@sigill.intra.peff.net>. +* Support for core.prefersymlinkrefs will be dropped. Support for + existing repositories that use symbolic links to represent a + symbolic ref may or may not be dropped. ++ +Cf. <20240829040215.GA4054823@coredump.intra.peff.net> + == Superseded features that will not be deprecated Some features have gained newer replacements that aim to improve the design in