From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Deprecation/Removal schedule Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:33:49 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7v8xfdnlqm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 05 10:32:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HE0DN-0002Qv-Vy for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:32:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752286AbXBEJcm (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 04:32:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752289AbXBEJcm (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 04:32:42 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43534 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752278AbXBEJcl (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 04:32:41 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HE0D8-0006Hg-VX for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:32:30 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-29-4.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.29.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:32:30 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-29-4.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:32:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-29-4.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > We seem to have accumulated some crufts, duplicated and/or > disused features. I think we should start planning deprecation > and removal. > > Here are potential candidates we might want to mark as > "scheduled for removal". Note that I threw in a bit more than > what I seriously consider bloat, so your favorite may appear in > the list. > > * git-applymbox and git-applypatch > > Does anybody rely on them? I think new users are all using > git-am (this is just what _I_ think -- please consider this > message as a poll to voice your objection). If I remember correctly there are here because Linus is used to their interface and prefers git-applymbox to git-am. I'm not sure for example if git-am --interactive is on the par of git-applymbox -q option (BTW. if we remove git-applymbox, we would have to remove reference to it in git-am(1): "--interactive: Run interactively, just like git-applymbox"). git-am also lack all git-applymbox signoff options. > * git-whatchanged > > This has been identical to git-log with different default > options. I agree. Perhaps we should add in the documentation of git-log, or/and in documentation of git-config, an example of "whatchanged" alias... > * git-p4import, git-quiltimport and contrib/gitview > > These have seen almost no activity since their appearance. It > could be that they are already perfect and many people are > using them happily, but I find it a bit hard to believe. I agree with removal of gitview; I'd rather leave importers, even if they haven's seen any activity. If they import correctly, what is to work on more? > * git-diff-stages > > Judging from the fact that nobody complained what it does is > not accessible from "git diff" wrapper, I suspect nobody is > interested in comparing the stages while merging (I certainly > do not use it myself). I think you can always use "git diff : :". I'm not sure if it is useful or not (perhaps it is not advertised). > * git-lost-found > > Although it has served us well, I think it is about to outlive > its usefulness, thanks to the recent "reflog by default" > change. I agree. If it is needed, perhaps this functionality should be made as an option to git-fsck. > * contrib/colordiff > > This has long outlived its usefulness. I agree. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git