>> If unused on trunk, why would we commit it there? >> When your branch is merged, you'll merge it along. Otherwise that defeats >> the purpose of working on a branch, unless I misunderstand something... > > This patch is not branch-specific.
As far as I understand, we don’t add unused code to the codebase. A quick grep through the current front-end and middle-end confirms that. Because it’s not used and not tested, it could bitrot and adds to the maintainance cost. FX
