Philip Martin wrote: > Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> writes: >> The single usage of the --strict option is arguably complete nonsense: >> the default docstring, which isn't displayed *anywhere*, is 'use strict >> semantics' and ... means nothing at all. In actual usage, --strict is >> hardly mnemonic for not printing trailing newlines. > > --strict originally did more. r845498, in 1.0, shows that --strict > originally stripped both the the path prefix and the newline. r872554, > in 1.6, limited --strict to a single path at which point it just > stripped newlines. > >> Given all that, I propose we deprecate --strict and conflate the actual >> option value with --no-newline, like this (this is trunk, untested): > > That looks like a good solution.
+1. See also a previous discussion thread "--strict vs --no-newline", started 2014-06-09, <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2014-06/0023.shtml>, <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201406.mbox/%3c1402331950.91045.yahoomail...@web87705.mail.ir2.yahoo.com%3E>. - Julian
