Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:
So I'm inclined to leave this as-is, maybe adding an escape hatch to
silence the warnings via an environment variable to give users a bit of
time to migrate.
OK. I strongly prefer simpler implementation, as long as it won't
make end-user experience (over time across Git 3.0 boundary) overly
unpleasant.
Numbing the pain for short-term gain and letting the inevitable
removal (not deprecation) suddenly hit them is also extremely
unpleasant at Git 3.0 boundary, and such a pain is probably a
problem of their own creation, but I learned after Git 1.6 fiasco
that users always blame us for their own failings, so I still am
fairly reluctant to see us offer a way to squelch the warnings too
easily and forget about it.
Thanks.