Re: Deprecation/Removal schedule

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 5, 2007, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtzy0mqtl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702050814380.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Same goes for "git-am". I use "git-applymbox", and I'll happily switch to 
> git-am, but I'd like somebody who knows to document the differences when 
> it gets deprecated. I use "git-applymbox -u", and I guess I just should 
> change that to "git-am --utf8".

True; by the way, for "am", -u is the default these days by popular demand. I do not offhand remember if "applymbox" got corresponding changes (I think it did).

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>> * git-p4import, git-quiltimport and contrib/gitview
>> 
>>   These have seen almost no activity since their appearance.  It
>>   could be that they are already perfect and many people are
>>   using them happily, but I find it a bit hard to believe.
>
> I think they're useful to keep around, if for no other reason than as 
> starting points for others.

I strongly agree with the starting-points arguments. I was hoping to hear the list to form a consensus to move useful starting-point examples to contrib/.