From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
<git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ntto4t8.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120312215607.GB11362@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:56:07 -0500")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> 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
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 00/12] 2.6.32.59-longterm review Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 01/12] compat: Re-add missing asm/compat.h include to fix compile breakage on s390 Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 1:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-12 2:49 ` Greg KH
2012-03-12 6:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 6:48 ` stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support) Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-12 8:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 15:20 ` Greg KH
2012-03-12 15:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 16:41 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-12 16:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 16:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-12 18:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 18:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 18:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-12 19:17 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 21:47 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-12 21:56 ` [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-12 22:03 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2012-03-12 22:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 15:31 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-13 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-13 17:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 21:57 ` stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support) Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 16:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 18:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 17:12 ` Greg KH
2012-03-12 18:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 19:26 ` Greg KH
2012-03-12 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-12 20:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 15:25 ` [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support Ben Hutchings
2012-03-12 17:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-12 17:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 19:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-12 19:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 03/12] writeback: fixups for !dirty_writeback_centisecs Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 04/12] bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 05/12] eCryptfs: Handle failed metadata read in lookup Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 06/12] [S390] KEYS: Enable the compat keyctl wrapper on s390x Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 07/12] cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 08/12] mac80211: zero initialize count field in ieee80211_tx_rate Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 1:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-12 4:36 ` Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
2012-03-12 6:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 6:52 ` Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
2012-03-12 15:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-12 15:55 ` Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
2012-03-12 16:10 ` Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
2012-03-12 6:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 09/12] net/usbnet: avoid recursive locking in usbnet_stop() Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 10/12] regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 11/12] regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault Willy Tarreau
2012-03-12 0:20 ` [ 12/12] watchdog: hpwdt: clean up set_memory_x call for 32 bit Willy Tarreau
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