[Condor-devel] RFC: git hooks as an aid to deprecating data structures or functions in the code

[Erik Erlandson <eje@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We had a discussion at last flightworthy where there was general
agreement that we should deprecate some older condor structures in favor
of newer standards.  For example, MyString -> std::string, or
classy_counted_ptr -> shared_ptr.

It would be fairly easy to write a git hook that did something as simple
as counting the occurrences of MyString in the "-" lines and the "+"
lines and rejected any commit where the "+" count was greater.   

This would programmatically maintain the goal of not having new
instances of deprecated objects creep in, which is a significant
possibility, since things like MyString are prevalent and there's a lot
of inertia toward inadvertently continuing their use.