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Re: deprecating more

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 17, 2005, 01:59 UTC
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Among them, I could be talked into keeping git-export on the
> condition that we will add a counterpart git-import that can
> read git-export output and recreate an identical repository
I don't think there is any point.

git-export was done as a concept example on how easy it is to export the git data to something else. It's much less powerful than ny number of trivial one-liner scripts now, and real exporters would not ever use git-export.

It's obviously much less powerful than "git-whatchanged", or just about any combination of git-rev-list + git-diff-tree.

So drop it.
		Linus
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