Re: refs/notes/amlog problems, was Re: [PATCH v3 01/20] linear-assignment: a function to solve least-cost assignment problems

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2018, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9f1a9ct.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kaLTJDmWhS8Y8R1cQh9TRXLawdoWHEzVC6PLHBN+VQekg@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:35 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> It is not like anybody (including me) needs realtime up-to-date
>
> I thought the same for a long time, but contributing to other projects
> showed me that this is not necessarily the case. Having a real time
> update, even if it would be just "your patch is labeled 'under discussion'"
> is beneficial as I would know where it is "in the system".

Well, you wouldn't have an access to the up-to-date amlog maintained by me *UNTIL* I push it out at the end of the day. So by definition, you do not have real-time access to the up-to-date state.

And also by definition, you do not *NEED* such an access, because you won't see newly created or rewritten commits, whose originating Message-Id is not in the copy of amlog you have (yet), until I push the day's integration result out *AND* you fetch what I pushed out.