Re: [PATCH 07/10] contrib: remove "persistent-https" remote helper

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 6, 2025, 20:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwmath4fq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250506-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v1-7-e6d5ddd79a72@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

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> The "persistent-https" remote helper supposedly speeds up SSL operations
> by running a daemon that keeps a connection open to a remote server. It
> is effectively unmaintained nowadays: the last time it received an
> update was in accb613afd2 (contrib/persistent-https: use Git version for
> build label, 2016-07-20) and its parent commits to make it compile with
> Go 1.7+.

Unlike other ones you said "haven't been touched" and I responded with "that alone is not a reason it is stale and useless", the above description clearly shows that it has bitrotted.

If somebody wants to use it as a reference to build their own remote helper, they can always go back in the history to find the copy.

Let's remove it.