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Re: [RFC/PATCH] drop vcs-svn experiment

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 4, 2018, 04:10 UTC
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<20181004041018.GA1526@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20180818052605.GA241538@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:26:05PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> > Of course, I could be completely wrong about people using this. Maybe
> > svn-fe builds are just completely broken on my system, and maybe people
> > really do use testsvn::. But if so, they certainly aren't talking about
> > it on the mailing list. :)
> 
> My take:
> 
>  - svn-fe works fine and has been useful to me, though its Makefile
>    could likely be simplified and made more user-friendly
> 
>  - I've benefited from the test coverage of having this in-tree
> 
>  - testsvn:: is a demo and at a minimum we ought not to install it
>    with "make install"
> 
>  - keeping this in-tree for the benefit of just one user is excessive,
>    so removing it is probably the right thing
> 
>  - it would be nice if the commit removing this code from Git includes
>    a note to help people find its new home
> 
> Would you mind holding off until I'm able to arrange that last bit?

Any further thoughts / movement on this? Not urgent, but I saw you mention it in another thread, and it's on my "to be decided" pile.

-Peff
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  1. drop vcs-svn experimentJeff King, Aug 17, 2018
  2. Todd ZullingerAug 17, 2018
  3. Jonathan NiederAug 18, 2018
  4. Jeff KingAug 18, 2018
  5. Jeff KingOct 4, 2018
  6. Jonathan NiederOct 4, 2018

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