bug#11858: df -m undocumented, why no df -g (original) (raw)

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From: Jim Meyering
Subject: bug#11858: df -m undocumented, why no df -g
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:08:47 +0200

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-69-151-g1e07a21 > 11 years in coreutils.texi: FILEUTILS-414-28-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