Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Remove 'git archimport'

Eric Wong wrote:

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] wrote:

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No updates since 2010, and no tests.

Who benefits from this removal?  Is this causing a maintenance
burden for Junio?

It is cruft that nobody uses and we are not even testing.

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Plus, foreign SCM tools should live out-of-tree anyway.

Even if so, there ought to be a transitionary period in case there are
any users.  We would need to warn potential users of its impending
removal in the documentation and at runtime.

All right, so you are OK with adding deprecation warnings whenever the
tool is run, and a note in the documentation?

For how many releases?

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Felipe Contreras