Re: [PATCH] pathspec: die on empty strings as pathspec

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

That's long enough for people who actually ran the intermediate
versions.  But what about people on distros who jump from v2.10 or lower
straight to v2.14?

I think to catch them we'd literally need years on our deprecation
schedules. Maybe it's not worth caring about. That's an awful long time
for people who _are_ upgrading each version to see the warning. Of
course the end game in this case is that it becomes an error, so they'll
be notified either way. :)

I'm OK with this case being a relatively quick deprecation, but your
"long enough" made me wonder how we would decide that.

-Peff

[1] Debian stable is set to release in a week or so. People doing that
    stable upgrade will go from v2.1.4 to v2.11.0. So they won't
    actually skip the deprecation notice, but they'll probably live with
    the warning for 3 years or so.

Yuck X-<.