Re: [1.8.0] Remove deprecated commands

René Scharfe wrote:

How did you search for current usage?  How comprehensive are the results?

By searching for "peek-remote" at http://www.google.com/codesearch

I tried to check out all hits that weren't just enumerating git
commands, but that doesn't rule out unindexed or non-public use.
No interesting hits.

But that's pretty weird, given that there was no deprecation
notice, nor anything else to encourage a transition.

*checks history*

Ah, peek-remote and ls-remote seem to have been introduced at the same
time.  ls-remote could use all git-supported protocols, while
peek-remote could only use git protocol.  So very few people had
reason to use peek-remote, anyway.

Am 02.02.2011 01:57, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:

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   git-repo-config  2008-01-17       git config

giggle[1] still uses it

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Likewise darcs2git[2] and the stgit testsuite.

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Well, the release notes for 1.5.4 promised that the "next feature
release will remove it".  Perhaps notifying the developers of the
projects you discovered is enough?

The list is probably not exhaustive.  On the bright side, repo-config
tends to be run in user-visible contexts, so I think a deprecation
notice could be effective.

That said, the benefit for final removal of this command, which is
effectively just an alias, is the smallest of the four.

After adding a deprecation notice and filing some bugs, I think we
can forget about it and wait another year. ;-)

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   git-tar-tree     2007-11-08       git archive

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pilgrim[3] uses tar-tree in its "make dist" target.  I wouldn't be
surprised if some other projects use it in a similar way.

Possibly, and this shows that deprecation warnings don't fully solve
the problem of educating users to switch to the replacements.

I think it's relatively safe to remove the command anyway because
the users in this case are developers and packagers

I agree.  The remaining users look like holdouts that will be hard to
get at by other means.