On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:17:44 -0800 Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Antoine Beaupré wrote: > > > On 2017-09-28 12:37:38, Jack Bates wrote: > > > > Any reason why this hasn't been applied to the package just yet? > > > > I'd be happy to do that in a NMU if there are no objections... > > Please don't. Adding additional contrib/ code to the supported > surface without coordination is not an NMU I'd welcome at all > (instead, it would be a bit of a rude shock). > > Would it make sense to install this to /usr/share/git-core/contrib/? > > If not, could it go in a separate package (within the same source > package)?
Both choises sound good to me. > I'm also curious about how this compares to > https://pypi.org/project/diff-highlight/ Lack of diff-highlight currently blocks https://bugs.debian.org/931427. I don’t think the Python version can work as a replacement in this case, so please package the Git version regardless.