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.

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