Deprecate git-lost-found

"git fsck" learnt the option "--lost-found" in v1.5.3-rc0~5, to make "git lost-found" obsolete. It is time to deprecate "git lost-found". Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-mirror · Nov 8, 2007 · fc8b5f0 · fc8b5f0
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
 
  * Various Perforce importer updates.
 
+ * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
+   option.
+
 Fixes since v1.5.3
 ------------------
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+
+*NOTE*: this command is deprecated.  Use gitlink:git-fsck[1] with
+the option '--lost-found' instead.
+
 Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and
 creates refs to them in the .git/lost-found/ directory.  Commits and
 tags that dereference to commits are stored in .git/lost-found/commit,

diff --git a/git-lost-found.sh b/git-lost-found.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ USAGE=''
 SUBDIRECTORY_OK='Yes'
 . git-sh-setup
 
+echo "WARNING: '$0' is deprecated in favor of 'git fsck --lost-found'" >&2
+
 if [ "$#" != "0" ]
 then
     usage