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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 9, 2014, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20140509145453.GA18197@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <536c9de8f07ae_39ea14ab310f9@nysa.notmuch>

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 04:20:40AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> Eric Wong wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Then we have no reason to believe they still work, and therefore, no
> reason to believe anybody is using this.

Do you have any reason to believe they do NOT work? If not, and they are not causing any problems, then what is the benefit to getting rid of them?

> > I've forgotten how to use tla to get a public repo, even.

I haven't used tla in quite a long time, but:

  tla register-archive http://www.atai.org/archarchives/atai@atai.org--public/
  tla my-default-archive atai@atai.org--public
  mkdir repo
  cd repo
  git archimport atai@atai.org--public

seemed to work (that archive is straight off the tla homepage's instructions). Looks like the commit messages could use some cleanup, but certainly it's better than nothing.

-Peff