Re: [RESEND PATCHv2] contrib: remove git-convert-objects

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> git-convert-objects, originally named git-convert-cache was used in
> early 2005 to convert to a new repository format, e.g. adding an author
> date.

I think this description is not wrong per-se but misses the much
more important point.  In the very early days of Git, the objects
were named after SHA-1 of deflated loose object representation,
which meant that tweak in zlib or change of compression level would
give the same object different names X-<.  This program was to
convert an ancient history with these objects and rewrite them to
match the new object naming scheme where the name comes from a hash
of the inflated representation.

> By now the need for conversion of the very early repositories is less
> relevant, we no longer need to keep it in contrib; remove it.

I am not sure if removal of it matters, and I suspect that we saw no
reaction from anybody because nobody thought it deserves the
brain-cycle to decide whether to remove it.  I dunno.