> Are you sure that these scripts are not used outside of CPython?

How would someone use it? There are only part of the code base, they are not installed on the system (by "make install").

If someone uses these scripts on another project which is not CPython, well, they can copy an old version from Python 3.6 and maintain their fork, no?

Why would Python still maintain a tool if we don't use it or test it ourself?


> The support of the svn:eol property is a thing I really lacked in Mercurial.

We are using .gitattributes to specify the end of lines of some files. A few examples:
---
*.gif binary
*.bat text eol=crlf
PC/readme.txt text eol=crlf
---

I understand that Git does handle end of line, and it's configurable by .gitattributes. Sorry, I don't know much more about that, and I'm not sure that this issue is the right place to ask questions about Git ;-) Maybe ask on python-dev if you are aware of an issue with Git?


> They were here when CPython used Subversion, they were here when CPython used Mercurial, what is wrong with Git?

The scripts are very specific to CVS and Subversion. They are useful with Mercurial or Git.

I wrote that we already changed the SCM twice since Subversion, to justify that I don't think that anyone still works on a CVS or Subversion fork of CPython.

Well, if someone really does that, I don't expect that they work on the master branch, and so likely have a copy of these scripts :-)


> Oh, you are VERY fast in committing Victor.

The PR was approved by Brett Cannon and Ned Deily.