git: a4c3b6f622b8 - main - Remove two tools that are no longer useful with Git.

[Matthias Andree]

Am 12.04.21 um 14:09 schrieb Mathieu Arnold:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:57:20PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Rene Ladan wrote:
>>>     Remove two tools that are no longer useful with Git.
>>>     
>>>     - mfh: this is replaced by 'git cherry-pick -x HASH'
>>
>> I believe it would be useful to still have such a tool that one simply 
>> invokes as "mfh $COMMITID" for the quarterly branch as in the past.
>>
>> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#ports-qa-misc-commit-mfh 
>> has instructions on how to do this manually, alas that is quite not 
>> as convenient - and hence likely to be used - as the nice original 
>> mfh tool.
> 
> Well, with Git, mfh would end up being:
> 
> git checkout 2021Q2
> git cherry-pick -x $COMMITID
> git push origin 2021Q2
> 
> I would rather committers learn how to use git (it is, after all, what
> they are here for) and then, they can magically now test before pushing.
> 

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose.
Committers/developers are not here to learn Git,
but they are here to develop.  Git is a tool, not an end in itself.

I also ask to revive the tool.  If it's so simple then there is no need
to kill it.