Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] recover: restoration of deleted worktree files

[Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>]

Hi,

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> In other words, I think this patch can be a fine addition to
>> somebody else's project (i.e. random collection of scripts that may
>> help Git users), so let's see how I can offer comments/inputs to
>> help you improve it.  So I won't comment on lang, log message, or
>> shell scripting style---these are project convention and the
>> git-core convention won't be relevant to this patch.
> 
>   not sure how relevant this is, but fedora bundles a bunch of neat
> utilities into two packages: git-tools and git-extras. i have no idea
> what relationship those packages have to official git, or who decides
> what goes into them.

For anyone curious, those packages (git-extras and
git-tools) are both entirely separate projects upstream and
in the fedora packaging.  A git-recover script may well be a
good fit in one of those upstream projects.

The git-(extras|tools) package names are a bit confusing
IMO.  But it's probably more confusing that they each add a
number of git-* commands in the default PATH the way they're
packaged.

We do package some bits from contrib/ (e.g. completion,
subtree, etc.) in the fedora git packages.  We don't add
scripts and commands from outside of the git tarballs as
part of the fedora git package, though.

So far, I don't recall anyone filing a bug report about
commands from git-extras or git-tools against git.  So it
seems that users of those additional packages aren't being
confused, thankfully.

-- 
Todd
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