Hi Sergio, Sergio Callegari wrote:
> Initially, I thought that the archimport was something > that needed git to be recompiled, while now I see that it is a > script that I can simply drop somewhere and make accessible by git > via an environment variable. > > For tla, my hope is that the tla deb from debian stretch or ubuntu > xenial, zesty or artful can remain installable for a long time in > future distros, since its dependencies seem to be rather minimal. [...] > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> If you would use it to recover tla data from backups, >> why not convert that tla data to git format today > > Because backup contain very obsolete stuff, are messed and are used > "lazily". Only when something requires the history of some old stuff > to be checked to understand its genesis, and there is no git repo, > one gets the courage to seek and extract the corresponding tla > archive from the backup and convert it to git. Which is the reason > why I have this stuff around so many years after something way > better than tla came around. Unfortunately, I understand that > laziness is not a very nice explanation. That makes sense. I am going to try to move git-archimport.perl to contrib/ upstream and package it in either /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/ or /usr/share/git-core/contrib/ like other contrib scripts. I'll include instructions in /usr/share/doc/git/README.Debian for using it. Thanks for the patient explanations. Sincerely, Jonathan
