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

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Message-ID: <874ntto4t8.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:15 +0100
From:	Thomas Rast <trast@....ethz.ch>
To:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
CC:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	<git@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.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@...f,student}.ethz.ch
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