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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Remove 'git archimport'
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Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No updates since 2010, and no tests.
>
> Who benefits from this removal?  Is this causing a maintenance
> burden for Junio?

No.  See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248587

>> Plus, foreign SCM tools should live out-of-tree anyway.
>
> Even if so, there ought to be a transitionary period in case there are
> any users.  We would need to warn potential users of its impending
> removal in the documentation and at runtime.

Yes.