Re: Deprecate git-fetch-pack?

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:48:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > Now that git-fetch is in C, built in, and doing the fetch-pack in the same 
> > process, the normal usage patterns don't involve actually executing 
> > git-fetch-pack. Can we deprecate it at this point, or it is plausibly 
> > being used by scripts? As it is now, I'm not entirely confidant that the 
> > tests in t5500 won't be fooled by git-fetch working even with 
> > git-fetch-pack being broken in various ways, which should be fixed if we 
> > want to keep it.
> >
> > We also might as well deprecate peek-remote now that it's a synonym for 
> > ls-remote.
> 
> Especially because git-fetch is no longer as hackable as it used
> to be, and because people may still find special needs that can
> be hacked up with direct access to low level transports from the
> script more easily than going down to the C level, I'd rather
> wait and see for a cycle or two to decide.  There is no strong
> reason to drop it, is there?

Still, if the functionality is needed, i think it would be better if it
were provided by git-fetch --pack. The list of programs is already long
enough, it should be time to shrink it.

Mike