From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1 Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:41:29 -0700 Message-ID: <7vlkh6kqk6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7v648c7bbn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200704041038.36183.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7vwt0s5tsc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 06 07:41:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZhCX-0004wG-Sq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:41:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751604AbXDFFlb (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:41:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXDFFlb (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:41:31 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao104.cox.net ([68.230.241.42]:49291 "EHLO fed1rmmtao104.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751477AbXDFFla (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:41:30 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070406054129.EFJC1606.fed1rmmtao104.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:41:29 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id jhhV1W00B1kojtg0000000; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:41:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:09:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> Thanks -- that's very true. I meant that they are loooong >> deprecated, and finally we removed them in this release. > > In a perfect world, the release notes would mention the reason for the > removal (e.g. "use git foo-bar instead"). Soon after 1.5.0 was released, I think we said these two were not used in practice and declared them as deprecated. So there is no "use this instead". In a perfect world, nobody would kibitz, but instead everybody reads, understands and remembers the discussion that led to the change ;-)