Prepare for deprecation of --no-quarantine.
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We're going to deprecate this in 4.7.0 so let's hide it from the man page, completions and other documentation until then.
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Pull Request Overview
This PR prepares for the deprecation of the --[no-]quarantine option by hiding it from user-facing documentation and shell completions ahead of its planned deprecation in version 4.7.0. The option is marked as hidden in the code but remains functional.
Key changes:
- Documentation files updated to remove
--[no-]quarantinereferences - Shell completion files (bash, zsh, fish) updated to exclude the quarantine options
- Ruby command files annotated with deprecation comments and
hidden: trueflag
Reviewed Changes
Copilot reviewed 11 out of 11 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| manpages/brew.1 | Removed --[no-]quarantine option documentation from multiple commands |
| docs/Manpage.md | Removed --[no-]quarantine option descriptions from fetch, install, reinstall, and upgrade commands |
| docs/FAQ.md | Removed mention of --no-quarantine switch from Gatekeeper workaround instructions |
| completions/zsh/_brew | Removed --quarantine and --no-quarantine completions from fetch, install, reinstall, and upgrade commands |
| completions/fish/brew.fish | Removed quarantine option completions from multiple brew commands |
| completions/bash/brew | Removed quarantine options from bash completion definitions |
| Library/Homebrew/env_config.rb | Updated HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS description to remove --no-quarantine reference |
| Library/Homebrew/cmd/upgrade.rb | Added deprecation comment and hidden: true flag to quarantine switch |
| Library/Homebrew/cmd/reinstall.rb | Added deprecation comment and hidden: true flag to quarantine switch |
| Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb | Added deprecation comment and hidden: true flag to quarantine switch |
| Library/Homebrew/cmd/fetch.rb | Added deprecation comment and hidden: true flag to quarantine switch |
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We're going to deprecate this in 4.7.0 (#20755) so let's hide it from the man page, completions and other documentation until then.