Re: [PATCHv1 0/6] Fix bug in large transactions

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:23:39PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:
>>
>>> (reported as: git update-ref --stdin : too many open files, 2014-12-20)
>>>
>>> First a test case is introduced to demonstrate the failure,
>>> the patches 2-6 are little refactoring and the last patch
>>> fixes the bug and also marks the bugs as resolved in the
>>> test suite.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this applies on top of origin/next.
>>
>> Saying "applies on next" is not very useful to Junio. He is not going to
>> branch a topic straight from "next", as merging it to master would pull
>> in all of the topics cooking in "next" (not to mention a bunch of merge
>> commits which are generally never part of "master").
>>
>> Instead, figure out which topic in next you actually _need_ to build on,
>> and then it can be branched from there. And if there is no such topic,
>> then you should not be building on next, of course. :) But I think you
>> know that part already.
>
> All very true.
>
> I consider anything new that appears late in the cycle, especially
> during deep in the pre-release freeze, less for me to apply but more
> for others to eyeball the preview of a series the submitter plans to
> work on once the next cycle starts, so basing on 'next' does not
> hurt too much.  For interested others,
>
>         git checkout origin/next^0
>
> would be shorter to type than
>
>         git checkout "origin/next^{/^Merge branch 'sb/atomic-push'}^2"
>
> so... ;-)
>
> But what is more troublesome is that neither this or updated v2
> applies to 'next'.