The git-pack-redundant(1) command is already in the process of being
phased out and dies unless the user passes the `--i-still-use-this` flag
since 4406522b76 (pack-redundant: escalate deprecation warning to an
error, 2023-03-23). We haven't heard any complaints, so let's announce
the removal of this command in Git 3.0 in our breaking changes document.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-checkout(1) command is seen by many as hard to understand
because it connects two somewhat unrelated features: switching between
branches and restoring worktree files from arbitrary revisions. In 2019,
we thus implemented two new commands git-switch(1) and git-restore(1) to
split out these separate concerns into standalone functions.
This "replacement" of git-checkout(1) has repeatedly triggered concerns
for our userbase that git-checkout(1) will eventually go away. This is
not the case though: the use of that command is still widespread, and it
is not expected that this will change anytime soon.
Document that all three commands will remain for the foreseeable future.
This decision may be revisited in case we ever figure out that most
everyone has given up on any of the commands.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The grafting mechanism for objects has been deprecated in e650d0643b
(docs: mark info/grafts as outdated, 2014-03-05), which is more than a
decade ago. The mechanism can lead to hard-to-debug issues and has a
superior replacement with replace refs.
Follow through with the deprecation and mark grafts for removal in Git
3.0.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Starting with 8e42eb0e9a (doc: sha256 is no longer experimental,
2023-07-31), the "sha256" object format is no longer considered to be
experimental. Furthermore, the SHA-1 hash function is actively
recommended against by for example NIST and FIPS 140-2, and attacks
against it are becoming more practical both due to new weaknesses
(SHAppening, SHAttered, Shambles) and due to the ever-increasing
computing power. It is only a matter of time before it can be considered
to be broken completely.
Let's plan for this event by being active instead of waiting for it to
happend and announce that the default object format is going to change
from "sha1" to "sha256" with Git 3.0.
All major Git implementations (libgit2, JGit, go-git) support the
"sha256" object format and are thus prepared for this change. The most
important missing piece in the puzzle is support in forges. But while
GitLab recently gained experimental support for the "sha256" object
format though, to the best of my knowledge GitHub doesn't support it
yet. Ideally, announcing this upcoming change will encourage forges to
start building that support.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Over time, Git has grown quite a lot. With this evolution, many ideas
that were sensible at the time they were introduced are not anymore and
are thus considered to be deprecated. And while some deprecations may be
noted in manpages, most of them are actually deprecated in the "hive
mind" of the Git community, only.
Introduce a new document that tracks such breaking changes, but also
deprecations which we are not willing to go through with, to address
this issue. This document serves multiple purposes:
- It is a way to facilitate discussion around proposed deprecations.
- It allows users to learn about deprecations and speak up in case
they have good reasons why a certain feature should not be
deprecated.
- It states intent and documents where the Git project wants to go,
both in the case where we want to deprecate, but also in the case
where we don't want to deprecate a specific feature.
The document is _not_ intended to cast every single discussion into
stone. It is supposed to be a living document that may change over time
when there are good reasons for it to change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Andrew Kreimer