Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:47:04AM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
> > Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > Rationale: this is both shorter to spell and consistent with
> > > --find-copies-harder.
> > [...]
> > > -M[<n>]::
> > > ---detect-renames[=<n>]::
> > > +--find-renames[=<n>]::
> >
> > Umm. The reasoning seems ok for me, but the farthest you can go is
> > deprecating the options. Removing them as in
> >
> > > - else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-M") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--detect-renames=") ||
> > > - !strcmp(arg, "--detect-renames")) {
> > > + else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-M") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--find-renames=") ||
> > > + !strcmp(arg, "--find-renames")) {
> >
> > would break backwards compatibility.
>
> I don't think we care with compatibility here, since those are not
> part of any release.
Ah well. You're right of course, but you could have mentioned that
somewhere :-)
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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