Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce new merge-tree-ort command

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2022, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy23kx2k5.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <220111.86mtk2xb1y.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> Maybe that was the right thing to do, maybe not, but it went out with
> v2.30.0 and the lack of complaints since then would seem to suggest that
> I was right that removing it wouldn't be a big deal.
>
> Of course it may have broken someone's script somewhere.
>
> But an important distinction is that they can get it working again by
> just copy/pasting that ~100 line shell library into their own script, or
> calling the underlying commands it was invoking themselves.

Was parse-remote a part of what promised our end-users? merge-tree has been since it was written.

That distinction is even more important.