Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 07/05/2012 02:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> However, I'm tempted to remove it directly this time, since it's been >> undocumented for a while: >> >> 5 years in df.1 and df --help: COREUTILS-6_9-151-g1e07a21 >> 11 years in coreutils.texi: FILEUTILS-4_1_4-28-gf5bf6fe >> >> What do you think? > > I agree, the option has been added to df in 1996, and declared > obsolescent in 2001, so the period since the latter is twice as > long as the active use. > > And it's very easy to s/--megabytes/-BM/ ...
More important than 2001 is the year in which we removed the reference from the man page and from --help: 2007
