Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2016, #04; Mon, 17)

Lars Schneider [off-list ref] writes:

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On 17 Oct 2016, at 15:28, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
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* ls/filter-process (2016-10-17) 14 commits
- contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
- convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
- convert: prepare filter.<driver>.process option
- convert: make apply_filter() adhere to standard Git error handling
- pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
- pkt-line: add packet_write_gently()
- pkt-line: add packet_flush_gently()
- pkt-line: add packet_write_fmt_gently()
- pkt-line: extract set_packet_header()
- pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()
- run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler
- run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_command
- convert: modernize tests
- convert: quote filter names in error messages

The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned
to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined.  A
new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple
paths, reducing the process creation overhead.

Hi Junio,

what do you think about v11? Do you feel the series is becoming mature
enough for `next`?

I've already had that feeling a few rounds ago, but I haven't had a
chance to read the most recent one carefully myself to answer that
question honestly.