From 8ca7f7c59f91f7b6b969ab91f3161bb4c6465939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abhijeet Prasad <aprasad@sentry.io>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 13:18:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(tracing): Remove start method

---
 packages/hub/src/hub.ts      |  2 --
 packages/tracing/src/span.ts | 10 ----------
 packages/types/src/span.ts   |  8 --------
 3 files changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/hub/src/hub.ts b/packages/hub/src/hub.ts
index 8917e17c792c..4799b8dce3d8 100644
--- a/packages/hub/src/hub.ts
+++ b/packages/hub/src/hub.ts
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ import {
   Primitive,
   SessionContext,
   Severity,
-  Span,
-  SpanContext,
   Transaction,
   TransactionContext,
   User,
diff --git a/packages/tracing/src/span.ts b/packages/tracing/src/span.ts
index 990f56ce981c..baece680f52c 100644
--- a/packages/tracing/src/span.ts
+++ b/packages/tracing/src/span.ts
@@ -149,16 +149,6 @@ export class Span implements SpanInterface {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * @inheritDoc
-   * @deprecated
-   */
-  public child(
-    spanContext?: Pick<SpanContext, Exclude<keyof SpanContext, 'spanId' | 'sampled' | 'traceId' | 'parentSpanId'>>,
-  ): Span {
-    return this.startChild(spanContext);
-  }
-
   /**
    * @inheritDoc
    */
diff --git a/packages/types/src/span.ts b/packages/types/src/span.ts
index 09b69454835e..d26887a93f2a 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/span.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/span.ts
@@ -128,14 +128,6 @@ export interface Span extends SpanContext {
    */
   setHttpStatus(httpStatus: number): this;
 
-  /**
-   * Use {@link startChild}
-   * @deprecated
-   */
-  child(
-    spanContext?: Pick<SpanContext, Exclude<keyof SpanContext, 'spanId' | 'sampled' | 'traceId' | 'parentSpanId'>>,
-  ): Span;
-
   /**
    * Creates a new `Span` while setting the current `Span.id` as `parentSpanId`.
    * Also the `sampled` decision will be inherited.