From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1] mention git stash push first in the man page
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 04:04:10 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710200403260.30185@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171019180801.GI15399@hank>
On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
> On 10/17, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:45:15PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
> >
> > > > Seems reasonable, though if we are deprecating "save" should we demote
> > > > it from being in the synopsis entirely?
> > >
> > > I saw that as a next step, with the "official" deprecation of "save".
> > > I thought we might want to advertise "push" a bit more before actually
> > > officially deprecating "save" and sending the deprecation notice out
> > > in the release notes.
> >
> > Right, my thinking was that it would still be documented in the manpage,
> > just lower down. And that would probably say something like "save is a
> > historical synonym for push, except that it differs in these ways...".
> >
> > > OTOH, dropping it from the synopsis in the man page probably wouldn't
> > > cause much issue, as "push" directly replaces it, and is easily
> > > visible. Not sure how slow we want to take the deprecation?
> >
> > I don't think there's any reason to go slow in marking something as
> > deprecated. It's the part where we follow up and remove or change the
> > feature that must take a while.
>
> Makes sense, let me drop it from the synopsis then.
what, exactly, is the oft-referred-to issue with how "git stash
save" works that is being addressed with the new syntax of "git stash
push"?
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-20 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-05 20:00 [RFC] deprecate git stash save? (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path) Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-05 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/1] mention git stash push first in the man page Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-17 4:14 ` Jeff King
2017-10-17 21:45 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-17 21:47 ` Jeff King
2017-10-19 18:08 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-20 8:04 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2017-10-21 6:20 ` Jeff King
2017-10-21 6:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-12 0:56 ` [RFC] deprecate git stash save? Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 11:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-16 18:19 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-17 4:13 ` [RFC] deprecate git stash save? (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path) Jeff King
2017-10-17 21:47 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-19 18:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] replace git stash save with git stash push in the documentation Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-19 18:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mark git stash push deprecated in the man page Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-21 6:28 ` Jeff King
2017-10-22 16:31 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] deprecate git stash save Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] replace git stash save with git stash push in the documentation Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mark git stash push deprecated in the man page Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] stash: remove now superfluos help for "stash push" Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-23 0:39 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] deprecate git stash save Jeff King
2017-10-23 1:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-23 5:18 ` Jeff King
2017-10-23 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-23 5:47 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-23 1:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-21 6:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] replace git stash save with git stash push in the documentation Jeff King
2017-10-22 16:28 ` Thomas Gummerer
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