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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-lost-found.txt4
-rwxr-xr-xgit-lost-found.sh2
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
index 133fa64d22..65dd1b0a2d 100644
--- 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
index bc739117be..7f808fcd76 100644
--- 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
index c0b00e0fd1..f2ec5d147a 100755
--- 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