Re: Cleaning up "contrib/"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 12, 2025, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20250512135017.GC1191957@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <aBmg1_wlF2fuk96M@pks.im>

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 07:40:39AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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> Other than that we also have some bits and pieces that _are_ actively
> maintained, but that just don't have a better place to live:
> 
> [...]
>   - Diff-highlight.
>   - git-jump.

These two are due to me. I don't have a problem moving them into their own projects if we want to clean out contrib.

I think diff-highlight is something that _should_ eventually happen inside git-diff itself (because it would be more efficient and we could do a better job). But it wouldn't share any implementation with what's in contrib/.

>   - Credential helpers.

These ones are tricky. In theory they could be spun off into their own projects, and we already have examples in the wild of things like GCM which are maintained totally separately.

But I think we may need to find people to step up as maintainers. In particular, I think osxkeychain is probably used by a lot of people, and probably shouldn't just go away. But I don't know how the maintainer would be. I wrote it originally, but don't (and never did) use it myself, or even have access to a macOS machine.

-Peff