From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 08:07:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] remote: remove dead code in read_branches_file()
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In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0mYmhnOL-F+StuKWSeQ48EsQSAnS0_6u-B8KKq+RrOW5A@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

>> Reminds me of the strategy to deprecate functionality in X (cf.
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/536520/) ;-)
>
> Leaving dead code around to confuse readers? :\

Did you actually read what was quoted?

We broke the use case to access jgarzik/netdev-2.6 only by having
jgarzik remote accidentally, and waited for quite a while (since
early 2008 until now) to see if anobody screamed.  Nobody did.  We
now know we can remove that feature.

That is exactly what Keith is describing, isn't it?