From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:43:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] index-v4: document the entry format
Message-ID: <87ipgfd1c7.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vlilcczzb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I am planning to merge this series early to 'master', before the GSoC
> student really starts working on the code, perhaps by this Wednesday. The
> earlier parts of this series refactor code to make things easier to
> modify, and the later parts of it demonstrate by example both:
>
>  (1) how the backward compatibility must be handled at the design level
>      [*1*]; and
>
>  (2) how such a design can be coded cleanly at the implementation level.
>
> The hope is that this will give a solidified base to build whatever new
> work on top of (perhaps call it v5).
[...]
> How do you want to proceed?

I was initially a bit reluctant to add this complexity so shortly before
the GSoC starts in earnest.  But the cleanups are really worth it, and
then it's not *that* much code for a quite substantial speedup for
webkit.

So go ahead and merge it.  Thomas can build on top, though I'm still
hoping he'll start before you complete the merge, and learn a bit about
basing work on top of unmerged topics ;-)

> I do not mind David's further work built on top of this series, but I
> think the entry-shrinkage design for v4 is good enough as-is.

My impression was that David just tossed around ideas (very
well-researched and tested ones, but still ideas) to help Thomas.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch