Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] object-store: carve out the object database subsystem

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: May 15, 2025, 08:22 UTC
Message-ID: <aCWkYdRN1B__oYZ5@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <871psrjlio.fsf@iotcl.com>

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 04:48:47PM +0200, Toon Claes wrote:

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> Only one small question though, what's the point of the compatibility
> layer in the last 5(-ish) commits? I mean if we add temp wrappers for
> other topics in flight, then when/how do we convert that new code to
> stop using the wrappers? Won't we remain having issues because there's
> always something in flight?

As mentioned in the comment for those wrappers the expectation is that those will be removed once Git 2.50 is out. This is a common approach we have used in the past, as well: for global changes to functions with a lot of users we introduce wrappers that remain for the current release cycle.

Patrick

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