Re: [PATCH] branch: issue "-l" deprecation warning after pager starts

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

So I think you're proposing:

  - step 0: warn about "-l" when it actually gets used, and otherwise
    continue ignoring

  - step 1: turn "-l" into "--list"

  - step 2: there is no step 2

... So I
guess the right rule is to warn when we are not in list-mode, and
otherwise quietly accept it.

That does mean that anybody who misses the deprecation warning may be
surprised when "branch -l foo" starts listing instead of creating a
branch with a reflog (whereas in the current 3-step plan, we have a
period in the middle where that's a hard error). That may be OK, though,
and is a natural consequence of getting to the end step sooner (even
with a 3-step plan, anybody who skips the versions in the middle _could_
be surprised).

Thanks for a concise and readably summary ;-)