Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> So I think you're proposing:
>
>   - step 0: warn about "-l" when it actually gets used, and otherwise
>     continue ignoring
>
>   - step 1: turn "-l" into "--list"
>
>   - step 2: there is no step 2
>
> ... So I
> guess the right rule is to warn when we are not in list-mode, and
> otherwise quietly accept it.
>
> That does mean that anybody who misses the deprecation warning may be
> surprised when "branch -l foo" starts listing instead of creating a
> branch with a reflog (whereas in the current 3-step plan, we have a
> period in the middle where that's a hard error). That may be OK, though,
> and is a natural consequence of getting to the end step sooner (even
> with a 3-step plan, anybody who skips the versions in the middle _could_
> be surprised).

Thanks for a concise and readably summary ;-)

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