Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] contrib: remove "git-new-workdir"

Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> writes:

Not free of maintenance burden, unfortunately.

The "git worktree" was added with a clear intention that we do not want to keep the hacky "workdir" script with known limitation and sharp edges to break your history and replacing it with something more sensible. Once it has become in serviceable shape, there is no reason to spend engineering effort to see if "workdir" is still working every time the implementation of the repository on the filesystem changes, assess how much work is involved to keep it working if a change would break it, and judge if it is worth to update "workdir" to keep it working or add yet another known limitation to the list of "this hack does not work with X, Y, ...".

That has happened recently when we added the reftable support.

In short, keeping it is distracting of us, *and* of dubious value especially becauseit is not as good as its more modern replacement.

Again, not really. The true reason is more like "Nobody *should* be using it", mixed with "There is a designed replacement these days. They should learn to use it instead of that old hack".