Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 10:30:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> * kb/diff-C-M-synonym (2010-11-29) 1 commit >> - diff: add --detect-copies-harder as a synonym for --find-copies-harder >> >> Will merge to 'next' soon. > > If we go this way, don't we want to deprecate --find-copies-harder as well ? Why? We are being nice to people who did not know --find-copies-harder but learned the --detect-renames long name before learning it, which by definition is are people because the long names have been there only for the last few months; they may expect "detect" to work there. That is the sole purpose of the additional synonym. I do not think we would get much benefit from panalizing people who knew about and have used the --find-copies-harder option for long time by marking it to be deprecated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html