Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2010, #01; Sat, 4)

Yann Dirson [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 10:30:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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* kb/diff-C-M-synonym (2010-11-29) 1 commit
 - diff: add --detect-copies-harder as a synonym for --find-copies-harder

Will merge to 'next' soon.

If we go this way, don't we want to deprecate --find-copies-harder as well ?

Why?

We are being nice to people who did not know --find-copies-harder but
learned the --detect-renames long name before learning it, which by
definition is are people because the long names have been there only for
the last few months; they may expect "detect" to work there.  That is the
sole purpose of the additional synonym.

I do not think we would get much benefit from panalizing people who knew
about and have used the --find-copies-harder option for long time by
marking it to be deprecated.