Re: [PATCH 2/2] index-v4: document the entry format

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

I am planning to merge this series early to 'master', before the GSoC
student really starts working on the code, perhaps by this Wednesday. The
earlier parts of this series refactor code to make things easier to
modify, and the later parts of it demonstrate by example both:

 (1) how the backward compatibility must be handled at the design level
     [*1*]; and

 (2) how such a design can be coded cleanly at the implementation level.

The hope is that this will give a solidified base to build whatever new
work on top of (perhaps call it v5).

[...]

How do you want to proceed?

I was initially a bit reluctant to add this complexity so shortly before
the GSoC starts in earnest.  But the cleanups are really worth it, and
then it's not *that* much code for a quite substantial speedup for
webkit.

So go ahead and merge it.  Thomas can build on top, though I'm still
hoping he'll start before you complete the merge, and learn a bit about
basing work on top of unmerged topics ;-)

I do not mind David's further work built on top of this series, but I
think the entry-shrinkage design for v4 is good enough as-is.

My impression was that David just tossed around ideas (very
well-researched and tested ones, but still ideas) to help Thomas.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch