[U-Boot] [PATCH] scrapyard: Delete this file and script

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 11:03:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom,
> 
> In message <1567099239-28108-1-git-send-email-trini at konsulko.com> you wrote:
> > The README.scrapyard file has been inconsistently updated.  While well
> > intentioned, bad data is worse than no data, and in this case a pointer
> > to use the history that git provides.  Remove the current content and
> > the script that would update it from time to time as well.
> 
> Should we not also provide some hints how a user (which eventually
> limited experience in git) can actually find such information?
> 
> I would appreciate if we could provide examples at least for the
> trivial case where is is looking for some specific board(s) well
> known to him; maybe also for searching for things like removal of a
> specific CPU (say, PPC405GP) or CPU falimy.

An example of using git log -- removed/path/ isn't a bad idea.

> And instead of removing the  scripts/fill_scrapyard.py  script,
> should we not rather modify it to generate a list of (all) removed
> boards - that would be really helpful, I think ?

The problem is that it's a python 2 script.  Python 2 is dead as of Jan
1, 2020 and distributions aren't going to be shipping an interpreter for
it.  So if we have some new tool for history digging, I'd rather see
something new written.  Personally when I need to dig through stuff I
just do 'git log -p' and search.  Even if it goes all the way back to
the initial commit.

-- 
Tom
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