Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > The "persistent-https" remote helper supposedly speeds up SSL operations > by running a daemon that keeps a connection open to a remote server. It > is effectively unmaintained nowadays: the last time it received an > update was in accb613afd2 (contrib/persistent-https: use Git version for > build label, 2016-07-20) and its parent commits to make it compile with > Go 1.7+. Unlike other ones you said "haven't been touched" and I responded with "that alone is not a reason it is stale and useless", the above description clearly shows that it has bitrotted. If somebody wants to use it as a reference to build their own remote helper, they can always go back in the history to find the copy. Let's remove it.
