Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The only thing it does is to scratch an irrelevant itch by people >> who peek the codebase and find an old command whose existence does >> not even hurt them. They may have too much time on their hand, but >> that is not an excuse to waste other people's time by adding extra >> makework on our plate, or changing the behaviour for people who use >> the command without explanation. > > It's a maintenance burden
I'm not really worried about the maintainance of a 20-lines long function ... > that confuses users. ... but I do agree that the doc is really confusing. It would be much better if the doc could be reduced to: "This is a synonym for linkgit:git-log[1] --raw --some --other ---options. Please refer to the documentation of that command." -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
