Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Rast <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10 | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:11:12 +0200 |
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes: > >> Git v1.7.10 Release Notes >> ========================= >> >> Compatibility Notes >> ------------------- > [...] >> * The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a >> while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these >> options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them. > [...] >> Updates since v1.7.9 >> -------------------- > [...] >> * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so >> that a bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. > > So how it is in 1.7.10? Is "git am -b ..." a no-op, now showing > deprecation notice, or does it pass "-b" to "git mailinfo" to limit > stripping of bracketed strings to those containing the word "PATCH"?
The option to pass down -b from git-am is called --keep-non-patch. The deprecation of -b is meant to let us call it -b for convenience in a later release.
-- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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