From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:59:24 GMT
Subject: Re: deprecating more
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509161856260.26803@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmqceayd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



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