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[187.190.78.172]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t16sm2785495oie.42.2021.05.25.02.05.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 25 May 2021 02:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 04:05:40 -0500 From: Felipe Contreras To: Bagas Sanjaya , Junio C Hamano , =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= Cc: Felipe Contreras , Jeff King , "brian m. carlson" , Siavash , git@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <60acbde4621f1_2257a20819@natae.notmuch> In-Reply-To: <8c08ee45-d7e4-b816-e883-a18dfa69fbc1@gmail.com> References: <87k0nt3f8i.fsf@gmail.com> <60ab17018efee_1691c20832@natae.notmuch> <87o8d0o2or.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <8c08ee45-d7e4-b816-e883-a18dfa69fbc1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Renaming "non-contrib" things out of contrib/* (was "Re: [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl[...]") Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > 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]: Huh? The whole content of contrib/ is installed in /usr/share/git/ [1] Some stuff like git-completion.bash is installed *twice*. Once in `/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git` and another in `/usr/share/git/completion/git-completion.bash`. > > 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? I tried that many years ago[2]. Didn't work. [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/git/#filelink [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1399662703-355-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/ -- Felipe Contreras