Re: Cleaning up "contrib/"

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 07:40:39AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> Other than that we also have some bits and pieces that _are_ actively
> maintained, but that just don't have a better place to live:
> 
> [...]
>   - Diff-highlight.
>   - git-jump.

These two are due to me. I don't have a problem moving them into their
own projects if we want to clean out contrib.

I think diff-highlight is something that _should_ eventually happen
inside git-diff itself (because it would be more efficient and we could
do a better job). But it wouldn't share any implementation with what's
in contrib/.

>   - Credential helpers.

These ones are tricky. In theory they could be spun off into their own
projects, and we already have examples in the wild of things like GCM
which are maintained totally separately.

But I think we may need to find people to step up as maintainers. In
particular, I think osxkeychain is probably used by a lot of people, and
probably shouldn't just go away. But I don't know how the maintainer
would be. I wrote it originally, but don't (and never did) use it
myself, or even have access to a macOS machine.

-Peff




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]

  Powered by Linux