Stefan Beller wrote: > > > > It is serious. > > > > The purpose of the 'contrib/' area is not clear. The statemens coming > > from Junio don't match what is on 'contrib/README'. So we have a huge > > variance of quality all over 'contrib/'. Some tools in contrib have > > higher quality than what is part of the core (e.g. they have tests, > > while git-archimport doesn't). > > How about rewriting the README then? To say what? > Also as I said in another mail, we could split up the contrib/ area > into multiple areas with narrow defined use-cases, i.e. staging/, > Documentation/historicTools (the current contrib/examples section), > 3rdPartyTools/, Bridges/ (for cooperating with other VCS). That won't fix the issue that these tools are not maintained. A separate repository 'git-cruft' might do. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html