Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #06; Wed, 26)

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > I have a strong suspicion that the narrow stuff will make the worktree 
> > > mess pale in comparison.
> > >
> > > Note that I do not have time to review this myself (which is not 
> > > helped at all by it being no longer a trivial single patch, but a full 
> > > 10 patches!), but I really have a bad feeling about this.  IMO it is 
> > > substantially under-reviewed.
> > 
> > Well, "a bad feeling" is not a convincing enough argument either, is it? 
> > What kind of bad interaction are you fearing?

> And the worst part: I think that as with worktree, there has not been 
> enough of kicking forth and back ideas how to design the beast, so I fully 
> expect a subtle breakage that would require a redesign (which will be 
> painful, with existing users of the feature).
> 
> Maybe I am crying "wolf", but I _do_ want to caution against risking too 
> much, too fast, with that feature.
> 
> In other words, unless there is more interest in that feature, enough to 
> generate a well-understood design before a good implementation, I'd rather 
> see this patch series dropped.