Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce new merge-tree-ort command

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:54:18 -0800

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maybe that was the right thing to do, maybe not, but it went out with
> v2.30.0 and the lack of complaints since then would seem to suggest that
> I was right that removing it wouldn't be a big deal.
>
> Of course it may have broken someone's script somewhere.
>
> But an important distinction is that they can get it working again by
> just copy/pasting that ~100 line shell library into their own script, or
> calling the underlying commands it was invoking themselves.

Was parse-remote a part of what promised our end-users?  merge-tree
has been since it was written.  

That distinction is even more important.