On Tue, Jul 19 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As continued use of 1.4.4 by people stopped being an issue long time > ago, we can safely remove the warning about interoperability that we > added in 1.6.0 when the use of delta-base-offset has become default. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > * Instead of outright removing, it probably is a good idea to hint > the reason why the now seemingly useless configuration variable > is there, perhaps. We cover that in git-config(1), I don't see a reason to continue dicsussing it in git-repack(1) as well. Just above the paragraph you're modifying we link to it. The patch you've got here also replaces a specific reason (pre-1.4.4) with a vague reference to "hardly any reason", leaving the reader wondering what that reason is...