Re: [PATCH 05/16] remote: remove dead code in read_branches_file()

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Reminds me of the strategy to deprecate functionality in X (cf.
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/536520/) ;-)
>>
>> Leaving dead code around to confuse readers? :\
>
> We broke the use case to access jgarzik/netdev-2.6 only by having
> jgarzik remote accidentally, and waited for quite a while (since
> early 2008 until now) to see if anobody screamed.  Nobody did.  We
> now know we can remove that feature.

Did we _not_ leave dead code around to confuse readers (no comment or
log message indicating intent), or am I missing something?

> That is exactly what Keith is describing, isn't it?

Wasn't that a joke?
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