What do people think about the subject? As to the timeframe I am thinking
about deprecation at v1.7.9 (late January 2012) and removal at v1.7.12
(early August 2012) [*1*].
The script more-or-less outlived its usefulness in July 2005 when
packfiles were introduced.
You are better off repacking the repositories in the first place before
accumulating so many loose object that linking the same ones between the
repositories would give you major saving. It is theoretically possible
that two repositories happen to have the same pack and it would give you
saving to hardlink them together, but even in that case, the saving would
not survive repacking unless they are marked with a ".keep" marker, which
the script does not do anyway.
A more useful feature to attack a similar issue would be to make it easier
to use "--reference" aka "objects/info/alternates". Namely:
(1) devise a way to make it safer by allowing the repository whose
objects are borrowed by other repositories a way to protect objects
that it does not need but may be needed by others from repacking; and
(2) allowing two repositories that started independently to share objects
using the alternates mechanism after the fact.
but that is a separate issue.
[Footnote]
*1* Both dates were derived from a mechanical "9-week per release cycle".
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