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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Removing unmaintained scripts
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:41:39 -0500
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Jakub Narebski wrote:

> A'propos, there is git-archimport script, last modified (as an
> individual script) in 2007.  Is anyone using GNU arch nowadays;
> isn't arch-fast-export better solution anyway?

According to [1] (see the green line), it still has some users,
or at least people who access the file now and then. ;-)  As long
as the script works, why would we want to cause them trouble?

For comparison, here's the corresponding graph for people using
GNU arch[2] and participating in the same survey.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git-arch
    http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=git-core
[2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=tla
    http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tla