Re: deprecating more

From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Sep 17, 2005, 01:58 UTC
Message-ID: <200509170158.j8H1wOVh027636@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <junkio@cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

[About axing programs]

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> Among them, I could be talked into keeping git-export on the
> condition that we will add a counterpart git-import that can
> read git-export output and recreate an identical repository
> [*1*]; without something like that, I doubt its usefulness,
> especially since "git-whatchanged" is far more useful for
> everyday use.
> 
> [Footnote]
> 
> *1* which I think actually is impossible without fixing
> git-export first so that it exports the initial commit.  I may
> be mistaken.

Given that you can just tar the whole repository up and handle it that way, all that work makes little sense.

Note that bk export (and cg-export) copy the current snapshot into a directory or tarball, so this doesn't do what I'd expected.

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