On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 08:40:18PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > On the other hand, I'm not sure this is that big a deal. The point of > > the deprecation warning is to catch people who are actually trying to > > use "-l" as "--create-reflog", and that case does not page. The people > > doing "git branch -l" are actually getting what they want eventually, > > which is to turn it into "--list". In the interim step where it becomes > > an unknown option, they'll get a hard error. > > I just thought we wouldn't want to surprise/confuse users who try to > use "git branch -l" with the warning message about "create reflog" > along-side the list of branches. That would just add to the confusion. > So, I thought we should error out when users do "git branch -l" > instead. Something like the following should help us prevent "git > branch -l" from listing branch names and might also prevent the > confusion. Yeah, I think that's just a more extreme version of the current plan (it turns it immediately into a hard error instead of warning for a while). If we just make the warning easier to see in the paged case, I think that makes the current plan fine. I'll wrap up the patch I sent earlier. -Peff
