Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 13, 2007, 22:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706132322210.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5u7d38h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I would want to start the 1.5.3-rc cycle, after merging
> at least the submodule Porcelain (Lars) and filter-tree
> (Johannes and Pasky).

Isn't that Johannesses (and filter-branch)? :-)

FWIW I think that there lies a long road in front of us with filter-branch, after submodule is merged in. I have no preference on what should go in first, but filter-branch If My Plan Succeeds (TM) will help transition from huge imports to subprojects.

So, even if I am not _that_ interested in subprojects myself, I _do_ want to enhance filter-branch. IMHO filter-branch is yet another proof that cogito -- even if it is now set to die -- was well worth it. Thanks Pasky.

Next plans are: make filter-branch a misnomer: actually be able to rewrite more than one branch in one go, writing the outcome to the refs/rewritten/ namespace. IIRC that was Hannes' project, but I'll gladly step in there if need be.

After that, I imagine automatic subprojects disentangling (maybe somewhat related to Alex' suggestion), so you can say "this big project is actually a subproject: directories a/, b/ and c/ are self-contained subprojects).

Of course, the nearest future from my POV is to actually implement the missing tests :-)

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: Junio, wherever you are right now, have a nice time. Hopefully not too stressful.