drop vcs-svn experiment

The code in vcs-svn was started in 2010 as an attempt to build a
remote-helper for interacting with svn repositories (as opposed to
git-svn). However, we never got as far as shipping a mature remote
helper, and the last substantive commit was e99d012a6bc in 2012.

We do have a git-remote-testsvn, and it is even installed as part of
"make install". But given the name, it seems unlikely to be used by
anybody (you'd have to explicitly "git clone testsvn::$url", and there
have been zero mentions of that on the mailing list since 2013, and even
that includes the phrase "you might need to hack a bit to get it working
properly"[1]).

We also ship contrib/svn-fe, which builds on the vcs-svn work. However,
it does not seem to build out of the box for me, as the link step misses
some required libraries for using libgit.a. Curiously, the original
build breakage bisects for me to eff80a9fd9 (Allow custom "comment
char", 2013-01-16), which seems unrelated. There was an attempt to fix
it in da011cb0e7 (contrib/svn-fe: fix Makefile, 2014-08-28), but on my
system that only switches the error message.

So it seems like the result is not really usable by anybody in practice.
It would be wonderful if somebody wanted to pick up the topic again, and
potentially it's worth carrying around for that reason. But the flip
side is that people doing tree-wide operations have to deal with this
code.  And you can see the list with (replace "HEAD" with this commit as
appropriate):

  {
    echo "--"
    git diff-tree --diff-filter=D -r --name-only HEAD^ HEAD
  } |
  git log --no-merges --oneline e99d012a6bc.. --stdin

which shows 58 times somebody had to deal with the code, generally due
to a compile or test failure, or a tree-wide style fix or API change.
Let's drop it and let anybody who wants to pick it up do so by
resurrecting it from the git history.

As a bonus, this also reduces the size of a stripped installation of Git
from 21MB to 19MB.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CALkWK0mPHzKfzFKKpZkfAus3YVC9NFYDbFnt+5JQYVKipk3bQQ@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 95 deletions

diff --git a/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh b/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 754c4a3284..0000000000
--- a/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-test_description='tests remote-svn'
-
-. ./test-lib.sh
-
-MARKSPATH=.git/info/fast-import/remote-svn
-
-if ! test_have_prereq PYTHON
-then
-	skip_all='skipping remote-svn tests, python not available'
-	test_done
-fi
-
-# Override svnrdump with our simulator
-PATH="$HOME:$PATH"
-export PATH PYTHON_PATH GIT_BUILD_DIR
-
-write_script "$HOME/svnrdump" <<\EOF
-exec "$PYTHON_PATH" "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/contrib/svn-fe/svnrdump_sim.py" "$@"
-EOF
-
-init_git () {
-	rm -fr .git &&
-	git init &&
-	#git remote add svnsim testsvn::sim:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9020/example.svnrdump
-	# let's reuse an existing dump file!?
-	git remote add svnsim "testsvn::sim://$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9154/svn.dump"
-	git remote add svnfile "testsvn::file://$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9154/svn.dump"
-}
-
-if test -e "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/git-remote-testsvn"
-then
-	test_set_prereq REMOTE_SVN
-fi
-
-test_debug '
-	git --version
-	type git
-	type svnrdump
-'
-
-test_expect_success REMOTE_SVN 'simple fetch' '
-	init_git &&
-	git fetch svnsim &&
-	test_cmp .git/refs/svn/svnsim/master .git/refs/remotes/svnsim/master  &&
-	cp .git/refs/remotes/svnsim/master master.good
-'
-
-test_debug '
-	git show-ref -s refs/svn/svnsim/master
-	git show-ref -s refs/remotes/svnsim/master
-'
-
-test_expect_success REMOTE_SVN 'repeated fetch, nothing shall change' '
-	git fetch svnsim &&
-	test_cmp master.good .git/refs/remotes/svnsim/master
-'
-
-test_expect_success REMOTE_SVN 'fetch from a file:// url gives the same result' '
-	git fetch svnfile
-'
-
-test_expect_failure REMOTE_SVN 'the sha1 differ because the git-svn-id line in the commit msg contains the url' '
-	test_cmp .git/refs/remotes/svnfile/master .git/refs/remotes/svnsim/master
-'
-
-test_expect_success REMOTE_SVN 'mark-file regeneration' '
-	# filter out any other marks, that can not be regenerated. Only up to 3 digit revisions are allowed here
-	grep ":[0-9]\{1,3\} " $MARKSPATH/svnsim.marks > $MARKSPATH/svnsim.marks.old &&
-	rm $MARKSPATH/svnsim.marks &&
-	git fetch svnsim &&
-	test_cmp $MARKSPATH/svnsim.marks.old $MARKSPATH/svnsim.marks
-'
-
-test_expect_success REMOTE_SVN 'incremental imports must lead to the same head' '
-	SVNRMAX=3 &&
-	export SVNRMAX &&
-	init_git &&
-	git fetch svnsim &&
-	test_cmp .git/refs/svn/svnsim/master .git/refs/remotes/svnsim/master  &&
-	unset SVNRMAX &&
-	git fetch svnsim &&
-	test_cmp master.good .git/refs/remotes/svnsim/master
-'
-
-test_expect_success REMOTE_SVN 'respects configured default initial branch' '
-	git -c init.defaultBranch=trunk remote add -f trunk \
-		"testsvn::file://$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9154/svn.dump" &&
-	git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/trunk/trunk
-'
-
-test_debug 'git branch -a'
-
-test_done