On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:48:31PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This function was never used since its inception in dd05ea1 > > (test case for transitive info/alternates, 2006-05-07). > > Which is just as well, since it mutates the repo state in a > > way that would invalidate further tests, without cleaning up > > after itself. Let's get rid of it so that nobody is tempted > > to use it. > > > > Makes sense. It wouldn't be a good idea to leave this around since it > didn't clean up after itself. Curious why no test actually used it > though.. I wondered that, too. Sometimes in cases like this a call got dropped during a re-roll on the list. But the original email: http://public-inbox.org/git/20060507181947.GE23738@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ has the problem, too. So probably it was just leftover cruft that was made obsolete even before it hit the list. -Peff