943fd670e29550dee31d37fcfecd9bdfd0e53d50
braney
  Tue Jul 14 12:18:25 2026 -0700
Remove unused importTrackHub script. It was a one-off used once in 2017 to import the Hoffman lab mappability hub (recorded in hg38.txt), is not installed by any makefile, has no callers, and even that single use fell back to a manual fetch. History retains it (added in 22740c40dcb) if it is ever needed again. refs #19154

diff --git src/hg/utils/automation/importTrackHub src/hg/utils/automation/importTrackHub
deleted file mode 100755
index cd53e792935..00000000000
--- src/hg/utils/automation/importTrackHub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
-# importTrackHub
-"""Take a trackHub trackDb file and import things so it can be loaded as a native track"""
-import os
-import sys
-import collections
-import argparse
-
-def parseArgs(args):
-    """
-    Parse the command line arguments.
-    """
-    parser= argparse.ArgumentParser(description = __doc__)
-    parser.add_argument ("inputFile",
-        help = " The input file. ",
-        action = "store")
-    parser.add_argument ("outputFile",
-        help = " The output file, the trackDb.ra stanzas.",
-        type =argparse.FileType("w"))
-    parser.add_argument ("gbdbPath",
-        help = " The full gbdb path where the soft links should live, must start with /gbdb",
-        action = "store")
-    parser.add_argument ("--trackDbPath",
-        help = " The local trackDb path where the html files should live. This setting defaults to "\
-                " ~/kent/src/hg/makeDb/trackDb",
-        action = "store")
-    parser.add_argument ("--test",
-        help = " Don't actually run any commands. ",
-        action = "store_true")
-
-    parser.set_defaults(test = False)
-    parser.set_defaults(trackDbPath = os.environ["HOME"] + "kent/src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/")
-    if (len(sys.argv) == 1):
-        parser.print_help()
-        exit(1)
-    options = parser.parse_args()
-    return options
-
-def main(args):
-    """
-    Initialized options and calls other functions.
-    """
-    options = parseArgs(args)
-    
-    if not options.gbdbPath.startswith("/gbdb/"):
-        print ("The gbdb path must start with /gbdb/, please update it and run again")
-        exit(1)
-    if options.gbdbPath[-1] is not "/":
-        print ("The gbdb path must end in a '/', please update it and run again.")
-        exit(1)
-    if options.trackDbPath[-1] is not "/":
-        print ("The trackDb path must end in a '/', please update it and run again.")
-        exit(1)
-
-    # Go through the trackDb.ra file. Download the files that are needed and update
-    # the trackDb stanza to reflect their new location.  
-    filesToDownload = []
-    currentTrack = ""
-    for line in open(options.inputFile, "r"): 
-        splitLine = line.strip("\t").strip("\n").split()
-        
-        # Handle the empty lines
-        if (len(splitLine) < 2):
-            options.outputFile.write(line)
-            continue
-        if "track" in splitLine[0]:
-            currentTrack = splitLine[1]
-        elif "parent" in splitLine[0]:
-            currentTrack = splitLine[1]
-
-        localFile = splitLine[1].split("/")[-1]
-        # Download big data and soft link it to gbdb
-        if "bigDataUrl" in splitLine[0]:
-            if splitLine[1] in filesToDownload:
-                newLine = line.replace(splitLine[1], options.gbdbPath + localFile)
-                options.outputFile.write(newLine)
-                continue
-            else: 
-                filesToDownload.append(splitLine[1])
-                cmd = "wget " + splitLine[1]
-                print(cmd)                
-                if not options.test:
-                    os.system(cmd)
-                fileFormat = localFile.split(".")[-1]
-
-                cmd = "ln -s " + os.getcwd() + "/" + localFile + " " + options.gbdbPath
-                print(cmd)                
-                newLine = line.replace(splitLine[1], options.gbdbPath + localFile)
-                options.outputFile.write(newLine)
-                if not options.test:
-                    os.system(cmd)
-        # Download description pages and put into trackDb 
-        elif "html" in splitLine[0]:
-            htmlFileName = splitLine[1].split("/")[-1]
-            if htmlFileName in filesToDownload:
-                newLine = line.replace(splitLine[1], currentTrack)
-                options.outputFile.write(newLine)
-                continue
-            else: 
-                filesToDownload.append(htmlFileName)
-                cmd = "wget " + splitLine[1]
-                print(cmd)                
-                if not options.test:
-                    os.system(cmd)
-                cmd = "cp " + os.getcwd() + "/" + htmlFileName + " " + options.trackDbPath + currentTrack + ".html"
-                print(cmd)                
-                if not options.test:
-                    os.system(cmd)
-                newLine = line.replace(splitLine[1], currentTrack)
-                options.outputFile.write(newLine)
-        else:
-            options.outputFile.write(line)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__" : 
-    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))