Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

	--binary)
		: ;;
	-b)
		gettextln >&2 "The -b option (a no-op short for --binary) was removed in 1.7.10."
		die "$(gettext "Please adjust your scripts.")"
		;;

Mentioning deprecation in 1.6.0 in the message left me uneasy because
we never actually did anything to actively deprecate the option; it
just has not been needed since 1.4.3 and we stopped advertising it in
the manpage in 1.6.0.  So I don't like the implication of "this is all
right because we told you so" --- on the contrary, it is "in practice
nobody seems to be using this option and we hope nobody will notice
when we take it away".

Hmm, I had an alternate patch ready in the morning, but Junio beat us to
it and applied the old one to master.

I don't really think it matters enough to apply *another*, so I'll leave
it at that.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch