From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:20:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Retire the `relink` command
Message-ID: <20170125232051.GA25810@whir>
In-Reply-To: <10319c47ff3f7222c3a601827ebd9398861d509d.1485363528.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Back in the olden days, when all objects were loose and rubber boots were
> made out of wood, it made sense to try to share (immutable) objects
> between repositories.
> 
> Ever since the arrival of pack files, it is but an anachronism.
> 
> Let's move the script to the contrib/examples/ directory and no longer
> offer it.

On the other hand, we have no idea if there are still people
using it for whatever reason...

I suggest we have a deprecation period where:

1) there is warning message when it's run
2) a note in the manpage indicating it's to-be-removed
3) ...then wait a few distro LTS cycles to remove it entirely