Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 14:22:11 EST


Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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