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The "stats" directory contains a couple of scripts to do some statistics
on a repository:
- "git-common-hash" shows the longest common hash prefixes and can be
used to determine the minimum prefix length to use for object names
to be unique. The script has last been touched in 53474eb92f
(contrib: update stats/mailmap script, 2012-12-12) and searching for
it on the internet doesn't really surface any potential use cases or
even mentions of it.
Modern Git also shouldn't really need this tool as it knows to
automatically scale printed prefixes via some heuristics.
- "mailmap.pl" performs some statistics on the number of mailmapped
commits in a repository. It has last been modified in 53474eb92f
(contrib: update stats/mailmap script, 2012-12-12) and has since
been bitrotting. It doesn't even compile nowadays anymore:
$ perl contrib/stats/mailmap.pl
Experimental keys on scalar is now forbidden at contrib/stats/mailmap.pl line 57.
Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash or array (not hash element) at contrib/stats/mailmap.pl line 57, near "}) "
Experimental keys on scalar is now forbidden at contrib/stats/mailmap.pl line 57.
Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash or array (not private variable) at contrib/stats/mailmap.pl line 57, near "$h)"
Experimental keys on scalar is now forbidden at contrib/stats/mailmap.pl line 64.
Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash or array (not private variable) at contrib/stats/mailmap.pl line 64, near "$h)"
Execution of contrib/stats/mailmap.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
This should be good-enough signal to indicate that nobody is using
this script at all anymore.
- "packinfo.pl" takes the output from git-verify-pack(1) and performs
some pretty printing thereof. On the one hand it reformats the
output to be easier to read and provide some summaries. On the other
hand it may also print filenames of blobs.
We don't have any replacement for this tool. Ideally, we should move
its functionality into git-verify-pack(1) itself.
Remove the first two scripts, but retain "packinfo.pl".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there is general interest (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc