Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] maintenance: add an 'is-needed' subcommand

From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 5, 2025, 14:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZTqqenfKETuvssJ-8KbaVAp5gG1n_jypkm-uBuH6vAO0A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa511reg0.fsf@gitster.g>

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

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> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is based on top of master a99f379adf (The 27th batch, 2025-10-30)
>> and is dependent on the following series:
>>
>>     - kn/refs-optim-cleanup
>>     - ps/ref-peeled-tags
>
> Yuck.  ps/ref-peeled-tags needed an update so kn/refs-optim-cleanup
> that depends on it needs rebuilding on top (no action needed from
> your side, but somebody is doing the necessary rebasing somewhere),
> and then these five patches need to be queued on top, which will
> require further shuffling when any of these two series need to be
> updated again.
>

I know, and I must thank you in this regard for putting up with this. This dependency chain is certainly not pleasant.

> I expect that during the pre-release freeze things will be slowing
> down, so I'll manage and survive ;-)
>
> Will queue.  Thanks.

Thanks!