From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD571F404 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750994AbeCZGBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:01:38 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:42762 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750783AbeCZGBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:01:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 29751 invoked by uid 109); 26 Mar 2018 06:01:38 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:01:38 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 17016 invoked by uid 111); 26 Mar 2018 06:02:35 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:02:35 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:01:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:01:35 -0400 From: Jeff King To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Joel Teichroeb , Christian Couder Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove contrib/examples/* Message-ID: <20180326060135.GB7594@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <878tafyito.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <20180325204653.1470-1-avarab@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 08:46:53PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > There were some side discussions at Git Merge this year about how we > should just update the README to tell users they can dig these up from > the history if the need them, do that. > > Looking at the "git log" for this directory we get quite a bit more > patch churn than we should here, mainly from things fixing various > tree-wide issues. > > There's also confusion on the list occasionally about how these should > be treated, "Re: [PATCH 1/4] stash: convert apply to > builtin" () > being the latest example of that. I'm in favor of this. I don't think I've ever come across this directory and _not_ been annoyed (because it was the result of a grep and was just cluttering the results). And I think your README change leaves a nice signpost for people who might be digging around for plumbing examples. > The people on CC got this, but it seems the git ML rejected the message > as it's too big. The abbreviated patches is here quoted inline, and at: > https://github.com/avar/git/commit/cc578c81c2cb2999b1a0b73954610bd74951c37b I was going to suggest re-sending with "-D", but it looks like "git apply" will not apply such a patch (even though it could in theory realize that the current blob matches the preimage sha1 and it would be safe to remove it). -Peff