From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Removing unmaintained scripts Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:29:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87k42olugb.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: <1331514446.3022.140.camel@deadeye> <20120312024948.GB4650@kroah.com> <20120312063027.GB8971@1wt.eu> <20120312064855.GB16820@burratino> <20120312085820.GA11569@1wt.eu> <20120312152004.GB9380@kroah.com> <7vfwddu60f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120312171257.GA25347@kroah.com> <7vzkblsnos.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120312214139.GA11362@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: To: Sergio X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 13 10:30:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7O3Z-00023K-Hy for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:30:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965023Ab2CMJaB (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:30:01 -0400 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:16851 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965008Ab2CMJaA (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:30:00 -0400 Received: from CAS20.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.110) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:29:55 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS20.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.110) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:29:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Sergio's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:23:34 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sergio writes: > Jonathan Nieder gmail.com> writes: > >> > 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? > > please do not remove the ability to convert arch/tla repos unless it is a real > cost to maintain the scripts. There may be few people who still use arch, but > there may be a lot of them who have arch repos of quiescent stuff that one day > they may need to revitalize. Perhaps it would be a good idea to add a test to ensure that git-archimport doesn't suddenly break with nobody noticing for months. Can you contribute a reasonable (small but representative) test repo? -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch