Re: [PATCH] string-list: remove unused function print_string_list

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> > Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> >
> >> The helper function stayed unused for 3 years. A removal of that function
> >
> > I think it stayed unused for more than that before the previous
> > proposal to remove it was written (I do not bother going back to my
> > earlier message that identified which exact commit this was
> > introduced at).  It has stayed that way for 3 more years since then.
> >
> >> was proposed before[1], but now time has proven we really do not need the
> >> function.
> >>
> >> [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/1421343725-3973-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com/
> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> >
> > I'll add a blank line before the sign-off.  Is this an example that
> > our "where is the existing trailer?" code misbehaving?
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> I am still curious about this one.

> In any case, I've reworded the above around "3 years".
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>     string-list: remove unused function print_string_list
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>     A removal of this helper function was proposed 3 years ago [1]; the
>     function was never used since it was introduced in 2006 back then,
>     and there is no new callers since.  Now time has proven we really do
>     not need the function.
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>     [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/1421343725-3973-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com/
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>     Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>
> Thanks.