Re: [PATCH] Retire the `relink` command

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 05:58:57PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Back in the olden days, when all objects were loose and rubber boots were
made out of wood, it made sense to try to share (immutable) objects
between repositories.

Ever since the arrival of pack files, it is but an anachronism.

Yes, this is a good idea. I could _almost_ see its utility if it linked
packfiles, too, but then it is very unlikely that two repos have the
exact same packfile.

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Let's move the script to the contrib/examples/ directory and no longer
offer it.

I am OK with this, but perhaps we should go even further and just delete
it entirely. The point of contrib/examples is to show people "this is
how you could script plumbing to implement a porcelain". But this script
does not call a single plumbing script. It just looks directly in
objects/, which is probably not something we would want to encourage. :)

Yeah.  I am OK with this patch as the first step of "first move to
contrib and then remove" two step process, but I suspect we may
forget to follow through.