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

2017-01-19 Thread Stefan Beller
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. 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. Signed-off-by: Stef

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

2017-01-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefan Beller 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

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

2017-01-19 Thread Stefan Beller
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefan Beller 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