Re: [PATCH 00/20] pack-revindex: prepare for on-disk reverse index

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Taylor Blau [off-list ref] writes:

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But I tend to agree with Peff that (in this case since a clear
deliniation already exists) it may save us time to just send two
separate series from the get-go.

As long as the two serieses are marked as such clearly, not just in
the initial round but in all subsequent rounds, it is OK.  But in an
unproven initial round, you may regret having to move a patch across
topics, from the bottom one to the top one or vice versa, instead of
just reordering inside a single topic.

Sounds good. Like I said, the last thing I want to do is create undue
burden on your or anybody else when queuing or reviewing these topics.

So, I'll try to err on the side of stating the dependency between topics
too often rather than not often enough. Hopefully the first ~20 patches
are boring enough that they will make their way to master soon enough
and we don't have to worry about it.

Ordinarily, I would have held off on the second series until more the
first one had graduated, but I felt that the pure refactorings didn't
make much sense on their own without the new file-based backend to
motivate them.

Thanks,
Taylor