On 25/05/21 13.51, Junio C Hamano wrote:
I think dispelling the conception by distro people must begin with an update to contrib/README where it clearly says these are "contributed software" that are not part of "Git". They are not something we stand behind like what we have in the rest of the source tree.
Archlinux packagers did remove contrib/ because they don't interest on it [1]:
Right now the Arch Linux's git package does this: find contrib/ -name '.gitignore' -delete cp -a ./contrib/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/git/
Also, the description there is rather stale. For example, the last paragraph must go as its entirety. The ecosystem has expanded thousand-fold since the document was written, and we no longer encourage people to add new things to contrib/ directory at all. We instead encourage them to write and sell their ware on their own merit alone, without planning to "borrow" authority and gain undue advantage over its competitors by being in the contrib/ area in our tree. .
So basically we should deprecate contrib/, and then after next few releases we proceed to remove it, right? [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/60ac51a7ecf74_1f8f720843@natae.notmuch/ -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
