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Mon, 5 May 2025 15:10:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Johannes Schindelin , BERENDSEN Arnoud , "git@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Cleaning up "contrib/" In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Mon, 5 May 2025 08:24:34 +0200") References: <3f3a0ee6-49a5-8013-7fe0-65c9ba8bfc3a@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 12:10:15 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > Many of the tools in "contrib/" fall into this category, and to the best > of my knowledge there isn't really a clear strategy for that directory. > So from my perspective, we should either rethink whether it is worth it > to have "contrib/" as part of Git, or we should at least do a spring > cleanup and drop bits that haven't seen any love in the last couple of > years. Things in contrib/ should either move up (to become a part of the core), move out (to become an independent project), or disappear. But isn't git-svn not even part of contrib/?