Re: Renaming "non-contrib" things out of contrib/* (was "Re: [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl[...]")

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: May 25, 2021, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID: <8c08ee45-d7e4-b816-e883-a18dfa69fbc1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtumrfgqx.fsf@gitster.g>

On 25/05/21 13.51, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I think dispelling the conception by distro people must begin with
> an update to contrib/README where it clearly says these are
> "contributed software" that are not part of "Git".  They are not
> something we stand behind like what we have in the rest of the
> source tree.
>

Archlinux packagers did remove contrib/ because they don't interest on it [1]:

> Right now the Arch Linux's git package does this:
> 
>   find contrib/ -name '.gitignore' -delete
>   cp -a ./contrib/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/git/

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> Also, the description there is rather stale.  For example, the last
> paragraph must go as its entirety.  The ecosystem has expanded
> thousand-fold since the document was written, and we no longer
> encourage people to add new things to contrib/ directory at all.  We
> instead encourage them to write and sell their ware on their own
> merit alone, without planning to "borrow" authority and gain undue
> advantage over its competitors by being in the contrib/ area in our
> tree.
> .
>

So basically we should deprecate contrib/, and then after next few releases we proceed to remove it, right?

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/60ac51a7ecf74_1f8f720843@natae.notmuch/

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