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Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 7, 2018, 20:14 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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>   huh ... well, that raises the question, if tla has been unbuildable
> for that long (possibly for other distros), what is the value in
> continuing to support git-archimport?
> 
>   https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-archimport.html

I don't think that we do really support archimport. It's just that we tend to leave things sitting around if they're not actively causing us work, in the off chance that somebody might find them useful.

I'd be OK with declaring archimport dead and unmaintained, and dropping it totally (I almost did so a few months ago when it _did_ cause me extra work, because it contained a bunch of shell injections that I turned up while auditing the whole code base).

-Peff
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