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Re: Removing unmaintained scripts

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Mar 13, 2012, 09:29 UTC
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Sergio <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> writes:
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> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > A'propos, there is git-archimport script, last modified (as an
>> > individual script) in 2007.  Is anyone using GNU arch nowadays;
>> > isn't arch-fast-export better solution anyway?
>
> please do not remove the ability to convert arch/tla repos unless it is a real
> cost to maintain the scripts. There may be few people who still use arch, but
> there may be a lot of them who have arch repos of quiescent stuff that one day
> they may need to revitalize.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to add a test to ensure that git-archimport doesn't suddenly break with nobody noticing for months. Can you contribute a reasonable (small but representative) test repo?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 37 of 37 in “stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)”
  1. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  2. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  3. Greg KHMar 12, 2012
  4. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  5. Thomas RastMar 12, 2012
  6. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  7. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  9. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  10. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  11. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  12. Thomas RastMar 12, 2012
  13. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  14. Thomas RastMar 12, 2012
  15. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  16. Thomas RastMar 13, 2012
  17. Jonathan NiederMar 13, 2012
  18. Thomas RastMar 13, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2012
  20. Jonathan NiederMar 13, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2012
  22. git-am: officially deprecate -b/--binaryJunio C Hamano, Mar 13, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  25. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  26. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  27. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  28. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  30. Greg KHMar 12, 2012
  31. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  32. Greg KHMar 12, 2012
  33. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2012
  34. Willy TarreauMar 12, 2012
  35. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  36. SergioMar 13, 2012
  37. Thomas RastMar 13, 2012

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