From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Thomas Rast To: Jonathan Nieder CC: Junio C Hamano , Willy Tarreau , Greg KH , Ben Hutchings , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary 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> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20120312215607.GB11362@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:56:07 -0500") Message-ID: <874ntto4t8.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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