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Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Remove 'git archimport'

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
May 9, 2014, 08:59 UTC
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<20140509085937.GA29347@dcvr.yhbt.net>
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a minimal token that anybody might possibly be using it, I would like
> to see it work at least once. Since you said you have arch repos, can
> you confirm that it does something?

Those repos are in offline/offsite storage and I do not have time to retrieve them. I've forgotten how to use tla to get a public repo, even.

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> Eric Wong wrote:
> > No, I am not convinced existing foreign SCM tools should move
> > out-of-tree.  Perhaps something like the following would be helpful:
> 
> Tell that to Junio.
> 
> If tools like git-remote-hg with tests and active maintanance and many
> users cannot be in the core, why should 'git archimport' be?

Perhaps it's easier to deal with a benign, unmaintained tool than to deal with you as a maintainer?

> Would you at least be OK with a demotion to contrib/?
I don't see the point of moving it around, even.
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Message 7 of 23 in “Remove foreign SCMs”
  1. 0/2 Remove foreign SCMsFelipe Contreras, May 9, 2014
  2. 1/2 Remove 'git archimport'Felipe Contreras, May 9, 2014
  3. Eric WongMay 9, 2014
  4. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  5. Eric WongMay 9, 2014
  6. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  7. Eric WongMay 9, 2014
  8. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  9. Jeff KingMay 9, 2014
  10. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  11. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2014
  13. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  14. Thomas AdamMay 9, 2014
  15. Eric WongMay 9, 2014
  16. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2014
  17. Martin LanghoffMay 13, 2014
  18. Martin LanghoffMay 13, 2014
  19. Felipe ContrerasMay 13, 2014
  20. Martin LanghoffMay 13, 2014
  21. Felipe ContrerasMay 13, 2014
  22. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2014
  23. 2/2 Remove 'git quiltimport'Felipe Contreras, May 9, 2014

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