In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the generalized Camassa–Holm equation that containing, as its members, three integrable equations: the Camassa–Holm equation, the Degasperis–Procesi equation and the Novikov equation. We present a new and unified method to prove the sharp ill-posedness for the generalized Camassa–Holm equation in Bp,∞s\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$u_0$$\end{document} is discontinuous at t=0\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$t = 0$$\end{document} in the metric of Bp,∞s\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$B^s_{p,\infty }$$\end{document}. Our result covers and improves the previous work given in Li et al. (J Differ Equ 306:403–417, 2022), solving an open problem left in Li et al. (2022).