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[PATCH v3 03/11] contrib: remove remote-helper stubs

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
May 12, 2025, 09:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20250512-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v3-3-32e151b0bfb0@pks.im>
In-Reply-To
<20250512-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v3-0-32e151b0bfb0@pks.im>

The "remote-helpers" directory contains two remote helper scripts for Mercurial and Bazaar. These scripts have since been converted into stubs in b2c851a8e67 (Revert "Merge branch 'jc/graduate-remote-hg-bzr' (early part)", 2014-05-20) as the helpers have been moved into their own upstream projects [1][2].

Given that these stubs have been created more than a decade ago it is very unlikely that anybody still tries to use them. Remove them.

[1]: https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr [1]: https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 contrib/remote-helpers/README         | 15 ---------------
 contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr | 11 -----------
 contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg  | 11 -----------
 3 files changed, 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/README b/contrib/remote-helpers/README
deleted file mode 100644
index ac72332517a..00000000000
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-The remote-helper bridges to access data stored in Mercurial and
-Bazaar are maintained outside the git.git tree in the repositories
-of their primary author:
-
-    https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg (for Mercurial)
-    https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr (for Bazaar)
-
-You can pick a directory on your $PATH and download them from these
-repositories, e.g.:
-
-  $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg \
-    https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg/master/git-remote-hg
-  $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr \
-    https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr/master/git-remote-bzr
-  $ chmod +x $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr
diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr
deleted file mode 100755
index 1c3d87f8619..00000000000
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-cat >&2 <<'EOT'
-WARNING: git-remote-bzr is now maintained independently.
-WARNING: For more information visit https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr
-WARNING:
-WARNING: You can pick a directory on your $PATH and download it, e.g.:
-WARNING:   $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr \
-WARNING:     https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr/master/git-remote-bzr
-WARNING:   $ chmod +x $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr
-EOT
diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
deleted file mode 100755
index 8e9188364c6..00000000000
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-cat >&2 <<'EOT'
-WARNING: git-remote-hg is now maintained independently.
-WARNING: For more information visit https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg
-WARNING:
-WARNING: You can pick a directory on your $PATH and download it, e.g.:
-WARNING:   $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg \
-WARNING:     https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg/master/git-remote-hg
-WARNING:   $ chmod +x $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg
-EOT
-- 
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  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

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