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

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Eric Wong wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.

> > 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?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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