Re: [PATCH] contrib: remove gitview

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Jan 2, 2017, 06:46 UTC
Message-ID: <8760lyc62u.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161229015918.jyiqd42z4htjibul@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 09:28:37AM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> gitview did not have meaningful contributions since 2007, which gives the
>> impression it is either a mature or dead project.
>> 
>> In both cases we should not carry it in git.git as the README for contrib
>> states we only want to carry experimental things to give early exposure.
>> 
>> Recently a security vulnerability was reported by Javantea, so the decision
>> to either fix the issue or remove the code in question becomes a bit
>> more urgent.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Javantea <jvoss@altsci.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
>> ---
>>  contrib/gitview/gitview     | 1305 -------------------------------------------
>>  contrib/gitview/gitview.txt |   57 --
>>  2 files changed, 1362 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100755 contrib/gitview/gitview
>>  delete mode 100644 contrib/gitview/gitview.txt
>
> Thanks for assembling the patch. This seems reasonable to me, though I'd
> like to get an Ack from Aneesh if we can.

Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>

-aneesh