Re: whither merge-tree?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:49:34AM +0100, Stefan Frühwirth wrote:

On 23.02.2016 at 06:02 Jeff King wrote:

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Let's wait and see how many "please don't"s we hear, perhaps, before
deciding to go 3.?

I'm guessing we won't see much either way. Even Stefan, the original
reporter, does not seem to actively be using it, but rather relaying a
report.

I _am_ actively using it. Maybe I was unclear on that topic. I'm in favour
of keeping it, because this means I don't have to rewrite Chris' Code in
order to be able to use the Python library that uses merge-tree (Acidfs).
But as a sensible human being I want what's best in the long run. I leave
that up to you as I have no way of assessing that.

Ah, sorry for the confusion. I had thought you were just relaying bugs
on behalf of acidfs folks, but it makes sense that you are using it
indirectly through the library.

So that's a "please don't" leave the code as-is but provide a (transitional)
solution that fixes the reported bug and has the best chances of not causing
any more headaches :)

I think the series I posted does what you want, then, and we can stop
short of deprecating for now.

-Peff