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To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:22:10 -0700
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> I really don't think it is a good idea to avoid mentioning 1.6.0, at
>> which we *removed* description of the option in our manual pages and
>> from the "git am -h" help message. How much more active deprecation
>> would a user want?
>
> A warning when the option is used or a mention in the release notes.

Ok, then we should probably instead do these two starting at 1.7.10 ("the
official deprecation date"), and then start erroring out on "-b" three
cycles after that.