Brandon Williams [off-list ref] writes:
I just took Jeff's series and applied it on top of mine (and fixed the
small problem causing t5812 to fail) and then rebased it to v2.9.0.
There were a few issues that needed to be resolved but nothing too
hairy. So it would definitely be doable to backport it to the
maintenance tracks.
Thanks for trying. I'd definitely prefer a series that is based on
an older codebase that is merged to pu->next->master->maint (in
other words, avoid "backport" and rather have "forward merge").