Re: [PATCH] pack-bitmap.c: ensure pack validity for all reuse packs

> >> I wonder what we can do better to make sure the work a contributor has
> >> already done (in this case, resolve interaction between two topics) is
> >> not wasted and recreated (possibly incorrectly) by the maintainer.
> >
> > I am not sure. During the interim maintainer period, Patrick sent a
> > couple of rounds of ps/build with a final patch to the effect of
> > "unbreak everything in seen", which could be dropped.
> >
> > But I think an easier thing to do would have been for myself to indicate
> > that you'd run into a non-trivial conflict here and provide the
> > resolution proactively.
>
> A trick used by recent series from Patrick say things like "this is
> based on X, with Y and Z merged".  This patch could have done the
> same way.  It of course makes two topics entangled and one takes the
> other hostage, so we need to carefully judge if such a dependency is
> worth it.  So far, I found Patrick's judgement on the choice of
> dependencies quite solid (essentially, Y and Z must be cooked enough
> at least for 'next', and can reasonably be expected to graduate while
> we iterate on the new topic that is being built).