Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #04; Fri, 17)

On 8/20/2018 1:26 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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Usually, I refrain from merging larger topics in 'next' down to
'master' when we get close to -rc0, but I am wondering if it is
better to merge all of them to 'master', even the ones on the larger
and possibly undercooked side, expecting that we collectively spend
effort on hunting and fixing bugs in them during the pre-release
freeze period.  If we were to go that route, I'd want everybody's
buy-in and I'll promise to ignore any shiny new toys that appear on
list that are not regression fixes to topics merged to 'master'
since the end of the previous cycle to make sure people are not
distracted.

Based on what I see in 'next' (midx, range-diff, etc), I quite like
this idea.

The comment above was about the ones that was marked as "Will merge
to 'master'" that are in 'next', not the ones marked as "Will cook
in 'next'", like the midx ones.

I am not worried about range-diff, as I do not think it came close
enough to the core-ish code to break other things; the potential
damage is fairly isolated and the worst would be that we'd realize
that we shipped with a new command that was buggy after the release,
which is not the end of the world.  'midx' and 'reachable' are quite
different stories, as bugs in them would in the worst case lead to
an immediate and unrecoverable repository corruption.

So I am still on the fence, even though I am leaning toward merging
them down to 'master'.

I'm happy to wait until 2.19 is cut for ds/multi-pack-index to merge 
down. I sent a new series today [1] that improves the series and 
corrects some bugs I found while making the full Git test suite work 
when writing a multi-pack-index on every repack. Nothing was 
"unrecoverable repository corruption," but I understand the concern 
there. Making the safest decision is probably the best decision.

I'm happy to contribute to a "pre-2.19 bug bash" after you merge things 
into master.

Thanks,

-Stolee

[1] 
https://public-inbox.org/git/20180820165124.152146-1-dstolee@microsoft.com/T/#u

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