git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH v3 02/11] contrib: remove "examples" directory

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
May 12, 2025, 09:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20250512-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v3-2-32e151b0bfb0@pks.im>
In-Reply-To
<20250512-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v3-0-32e151b0bfb0@pks.im>

The "examples" directory used to contain scripted versions of some of our builtins. These have all been removed in 49eb8d39c78 (Remove contrib/examples/*, 2018-03-25), but we left a note in the directory to make it discoverable that there used to be examples.

It is unlikely that anybody still looks at these examples more than 7 years after they have been removed. Remove the note and its directory.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 contrib/examples/README | 20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/examples/README b/contrib/examples/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 18bc60b021b..00000000000
--- a/contrib/examples/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-This directory used to contain scripted implementations of builtins
-that have since been rewritten in C.
-
-They have now been removed, but can be retrieved from an older commit
-that removed them from this directory.
-
-They're interesting for their reference value to any aspiring plumbing
-users who want to learn how pieces can be fit together, but in many
-cases have drifted enough from the actual implementations Git uses to
-be instructive.
-
-Other things that can be useful:
-
- * Some commands such as git-gc wrap other commands, and what they're
-   doing behind the scenes can be seen by running them under
-   GIT_TRACE=1
-
- * Doing `git log` on paths matching '*--helper.c' will show
-   incremental effort in the direction of moving existing shell
-   scripts to C.
-- 
2.49.0.1101.gccaa498523.dirty
Previous: Patrick SteinhardtNext: Patrick Steinhardt
Message 3 of 25 in “Spring cleanup of "contrib/"”
  1. 00/11 Spring cleanup of "contrib/"Patrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  2. 01/11 contrib: remove "remotes2config.sh"Patrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  3. 02/11 contrib: remove "examples" directoryPatrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  4. 03/11 contrib: remove remote-helper stubsPatrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  5. 04/11 contrib: remove "thunderbird-patch-inline"Patrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2025
  7. Toon ClaesMay 26, 2025
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2025
  9. 05/11 contrib: remove "hooks" directoryPatrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  10. 07/11 contrib: remove "persistent-https" remote helperPatrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  11. 06/11 contrib: remove "mw-to-git"Patrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  12. 08/11 contrib: remove "git-resurrect.sh"Patrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  13. 09/11 contrib: remove "emacs" directoryPatrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  14. 10/11 contrib: remove "git-new-workdir"Patrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  15. Gabriel SchererSep 8, 2025
  16. Kristoffer HaugsbakkSep 8, 2025
  17. Gabriel SchererSep 8, 2025
  18. D. Ben KnobleSep 12, 2025
  19. Gabriel SchererSep 12, 2025
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2025
  21. Phillip WoodSep 12, 2025
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2025
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2025
  24. 11/11 contrib: remove some scripts in "stats" directoryPatrick Steinhardt, May 12, 2025
  25. Elijah NewrenMay 13, 2025

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.