Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Feb 7, 2018, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1802071500220.14248@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20180207172902.GL1427@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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> > finally, from fedora, i am utterly unable to find a package that
> > provides git-archimport. pretty sure fedora used to have a
> > "git-arch" package but it's not there now.
>
> It hasn't been in Fedora since 2011.  The tla command which is
> required for git-archimport was retired, thus we removed the
> git-arch package.  The rpm changelog shows this:
>
> * Tue Jul 26 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> - 1.7.6-4
> - Drop git-arch on fedora >= 16, the tla package has been retired
>
> As does the git history for the package:
>
>     https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git/c/3f0dc974fa
>
> The tla package was retired because it failed to build for
> several releases:
>
>     https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tla/blob/master/f/dead.package

  huh ... well, that raises the question, if tla has been unbuildable
for that long (possibly for other distros), what is the value in
continuing to support git-archimport?

  https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-archimport.html

i don't really care one way or the other, but perhaps git-archimport should be broken out as a "non-core" component of git. related post coming shortly ...

rday

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