About changing the status of the --parent option of the hg backout command from DEPRECATED to WARNING

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jordigh at octave.org
Mon May 20 16:00:08 CDT 2013


On 20 May 2013 16:36, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> wrote:
> On 20 May 2013 11:20, André Felipe Dias <andref.dias at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In Portuguese, there is no direct correspondent to 'deprecated'. Obsolete is
>> used instead and its meaning is slightly different than deprecated. It
>> suggests that there is a newer or better option.
>
> Then pick a different wording. In Spanish we use something like "en
> desuso". It just means something isn't used, but it doesn't suggest
> that a modern alternative. Or you can say something like "no
> recomndable". I imagine Portuguese must have cognates similar in
> meaning to the Spanish ones.

I just had another idea: abandoned, or its cognate in Portuguese,
which I'm sure must exist. An option being abandoned sounds about
right to me.

- Jordi G. H.


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