Re: [PATCH] contrib: drop hg-to-git script

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2024, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh6gwwzpi.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240322234354.GC2049941@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Anyway, the important takeaway to me is that searches are not likely to
> end up at contrib/hg-to-git, with people wondering where it went. They
> will point directly to the alternatives.

And what is most attractive is that the list of alternatives they will see in there searches will be updated as new and better ones appear, unlike contrib/hg-to-git/README that we would need to conciously maintain, which we are unlikely to do.

We might want to see if there are other contrib/ ones with only tombstone READMEs and remove them as a part of spring (in the northern hemisphere) cleaning, #leftoverbits, citing what we discussed in this thread as the rationale.

Thanks.