Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Rast <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:15 +0100 |
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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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