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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Thomas Rast wrote:

> Ok, but if I don't get to say anything about repurposing, can I at least
> make it an error message instead of just spewing out the "invalid
> option" help?

I don't mind either way.

[...]
> --- a/git-am.sh
> +++ b/git-am.sh
> @@ -380,7 +380,9 @@ do
>  	-i|--interactive)
>  		interactive=t ;;
>  	-b|--binary)
> -		: ;;
> +		echo >&2 "The -b/--binary option was deprecated in 1.6.0 and removed in 1.7.10."
> +		die "Please adjust your scripts."
> +		;;

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.

Jonathan
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