From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758666Ab2DJSoB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:44:01 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:60480 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758562Ab2DJSns (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:43:48 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10 References: <7v1uo01ta1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:43:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7v1uo01ta1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: > Git v1.7.10 Release Notes > ========================= > > Compatibility Notes > ------------------- [...] > * The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a > while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these > options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them. [...] > Updates since v1.7.9 > -------------------- [...] > * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so > that a bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. So how it is in 1.7.10? Is "git am -b ..." a no-op, now showing deprecation notice, or does it pass "-b" to "git mailinfo" to limit stripping of bracketed strings to those containing the word "PATCH"? -- Jakub Narebski