From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:32:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: label use of -V/--versin-control as a warning
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0j-trial~150
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d1aa48746350c227c515d12c06f08e623e9a9b3;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

label use of -V/--versin-control as a warning
---

diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index f843e3862b..7b95cd6eb5 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -691,7 +691,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	  break;
 
 	case 'V':  /* FIXME: this is deprecated.  Remove it in 2001.  */
-	  error (0, 0, _("obsolete option name replaced by --backup"));
+	  error (0, 0,
+		 _("warning: --version-control (-V) is obsolete;  support for\
+ it\nwill be removed in some future release.  Use --backup=%s instead."
+		   ), optarg);
 	  /* Fall through.  */
 
 	case 'b':
diff --git a/src/mv.c b/src/mv.c
index 877fbcd925..825455f8c6 100644
--- a/src/mv.c
+++ b/src/mv.c
@@ -400,7 +400,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	  break;
 
 	case 'V':  /* FIXME: this is deprecated.  Remove it in 2001.  */
-	  error (0, 0, _("obsolete option name replaced by --backup"));
+	  error (0, 0,
+		 _("warning: --version-control (-V) is obsolete;  support for\
+ it\nwill be removed in some future release.  Use --backup=%s instead."
+		   ), optarg);
 	  /* Fall through.  */
 
 	case 'b':