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df -m undocumented, why no df -g

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Message #26 received at 11858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj <at> suse.com>, 11858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: 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-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

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