Re: [PATCH] branch -l: print useful info whilst rebasing a non-local branch

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

IMHO we should do one of:

  1. Nothing. ;)

  2. Complain about "-l" in list mode to help educate users about the
     current craziness.

Nah.  We've seen this, perhaps not often but enough times over long
period of time.  The above two would not fly as a longer term
solution.

  3. Drop "-l" (probably with a deprecation period); it seems unlikely
     to me that anybody uses it for branch creation, and this would at
     least reduce the confusion (then it would just be "so why don't we
     have -l" instead of "why is -l not what I expect").

  4. Repurpose "-l" as a shortcut for --list (also after a deprecation
     period). This is slightly more dangerous in that it may confuse
     people using multiple versions of Git that cross the deprecation
     line. But that's kind of what the deprecation period is for...

3. is prerequisite for 4.  If we haven't gone through both in 5
years we should be ashamed of ourselves ;-)  But at least we should
start 3. and aim to finish 3. in 2 years if not sooner.