Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> writes:
> --binary)
> : ;;
> -b)
> gettextln >&2 "The -b option (a no-op short for --binary) was
> removed in 1.7.10."
> die "$(gettext "Please adjust your scripts.")"
> ;;
>
> Mentioning deprecation in 1.6.0 in the message left me uneasy because
> we never actually did anything to actively deprecate the option; it
> just has not been needed since 1.4.3 and we stopped advertising it in
> the manpage in 1.6.0. So I don't like the implication of "this is all
> right because we told you so" --- on the contrary, it is "in practice
> nobody seems to be using this option and we hope nobody will notice
> when we take it away".
Hmm, I had an alternate patch ready in the morning, but Junio beat us to
it and applied the old one to master.
I don't really think it matters enough to apply *another*, so I'll leave
it at that.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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