http-fetch: make `-a` standard behaviour

This is a follow-up to a6c786fce8 (Mark http-fetch without -a as
deprecated, 2011-08-23). For more than six years, we have been warning
when `-a` is not provided, and the documentation has been saying that
`-a` will become the default.

It is a bit unclear what "default" means here. There is no such thing as
`http-fetch --no-a`. But according to my searches, no-one has been
asking on the mailing list how they should silence the warning and
prepare for overriding the flipped default. So let's assume that
everybody is happy with `-a`. They should be, since not using it may
break the repo in such a way that Git itself is unable to fix it.

Always behave as if `-a` was given. Since `-a` implies `-c` (get commit
objects) and `-t` (get trees), all three options are now unnecessary.
Document all of these as historical artefacts that have no effect.

Leave no-op code for handling these options in http-fetch.c. The
options-handling is currently rather loose. If someone tightens it, we
will not want these ignored options to accidentally turn into hard
errors.

Since `-a` was the only safe and sane usage and we have been pushing
people towards it for a long time, refrain from warning when it is used
"unnecessarily" now. Similarly, do not add anything scary-looking to the
man-page about how it will be removed in the future. We can always do so
later. (It is not like we are in desperate need of freeing up
one-letter arguments.)

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index 8af380050c..a1564f5a41 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c
@@ -17,21 +17,13 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	char *url = NULL;
 	int arg = 1;
 	int rc = 0;
-	int get_tree = 0;
-	int get_history = 0;
-	int get_all = 0;
 	int get_verbosely = 0;
 	int get_recover = 0;
 
 	while (arg < argc && argv[arg][0] == '-') {
 		if (argv[arg][1] == 't') {
-			get_tree = 1;
 		} else if (argv[arg][1] == 'c') {
-			get_history = 1;
 		} else if (argv[arg][1] == 'a') {
-			get_all = 1;
-			get_tree = 1;
-			get_history = 1;
 		} else if (argv[arg][1] == 'v') {
 			get_verbosely = 1;
 		} else if (argv[arg][1] == 'w') {
@@ -55,10 +47,6 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
 		commits = 1;
 	}
 
-	if (get_all == 0)
-		warning("http-fetch: use without -a is deprecated.\n"
-			"In a future release, -a will become the default.");
-
 	if (argv[arg])
 		str_end_url_with_slash(argv[arg], &url);
 
@@ -68,9 +56,9 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	http_init(NULL, url, 0);
 	walker = get_http_walker(url);
-	walker->get_tree = get_tree;
-	walker->get_history = get_history;
-	walker->get_all = get_all;
+	walker->get_tree = 1;
+	walker->get_history = 1;
+	walker->get_all = 1;
 	walker->get_verbosely = get_verbosely;
 	walker->get_recover = get_recover;