Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Provide API to invalidate refs cache

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:50:42 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:

And this rebase will be work with no benefit, because my series 
includes
all of the improvements of jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted plus much more.  
But
my change to the data structure is implemented in a different order 
and
following other improvements.  For example, I add a lot of comments,
change a lot of code to use the cached_refs data structure more
consistently, and accommodate partly-sorted lists by the time my 
patch
series includes everything that is in jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted.

Rebasing 78 patches is going to be a morass of clerical work.  Is 
there
any alternative?

If you create a new commit that reverts the problematic changes to 
refs.c with some suitable message about doing the same thing more 
piecemeal as the first change of a new series, and rebase your changes 
on top, you should be able to create a 79 patch series with little work. 
Dunno if that would acceptable for merging?

-- 
Julian