From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:53:33 GMT Subject: Re: tortoiseplink ssh variant still needed? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Sven Strickroth writes: > IIRC tortoiseplink was initially created by TortoiseCVS which is > nowadays not maintained any more > (). > In TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit tortoiseplink was modified six years > ago (around 2015-03-07) to ignore the "--batch" parameter and also > accept "-p" additionally to "-P" (cf. > ). > > Therefore, my first question: Does Git still want to support very old > versions of tortoiseplink or should I provide a patch which drops > support for it? You sent the question to me so I am answering, but this depends on (1) who the users who use TortoisePlink are and (2) by dropping support for it, what we would gain. I am guessing that nobody other than those on Windows use TortoisePlink, and that everybody other than those who build their own Git from source use Dscho's Git-for-Windows, and I further assume that the GfW comes with its own copy of OpenSSH. So our intended audience is those who started using Git on Windows back when TortoisePlink was still a thing, are still happily using TortoisePlink, and are willing to only update Git but not migrate to OpenSSH. How big that audience is, I do not know, as I do not do Windows. How much maintenance burden is the "support" costing us? A quick scan in connect.c tells me that the "add --batch to the command line" would be the only thing we would be able to shed; everything else seems to be shared with plink and putty. So...?