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The feature release after 1.5.0 will be 1.5.1; hopefully we can
stick to 6-8 weeks schedule between feature releases, which
makes it due sometime in April, assuming that 1.5.0 will be done
in a week or so.

In 1.5.0, you will still see git-resolve and git-diff-stages,
but they will be removed by 1.5.1.

We will keep the following for now, but not encourage use of
them to new users.  There isn't any definite removal schedule
right now and we may not even need one.

	whatchanged (use "log --full-history --raw -r" instead)
	applymbox (use "am" instead)
	init-db (use "init")
	fsck-objects (use "fsck")
	repo-config (use "config")

When we created the contrib/ area, I said that anything there is
subject to periodical review for removal if kept unused and
unmaintained.  But anything that satisfies the requirements of
its small userbase will have happy users without exposing its
shortcomings, so I suspect removal from contrib/ by periodic
review would never happen in practice.

I've already removed contrib/colordiff and git-merge-recur.

Among the ones I mentioned in my initial message, the ones that
are not mentioned in this message will stay as before.